Régis Guyon, deputy director of the French Institute of Education (IFÉ), and Hélène Buisson-Fenet, director of research in Sociology at the CNRS and member of the Triangle laboratory, have published L’École écologique : s’ajuster ou transformer ? (The eco-friendly school: to adapt or to transform?) with ENS Éditions.
L'école écologique : s'ajuster ou transformer ?
Hélène Buisson-Fenet and Régis Guyon
With contributions from Angela Barthes, Nisa Fiogère, Isabelle Gaborieau, Frédéric Lalanne, Nadia Lausselet, Jade Malivoir and Benoît Urgelli.
ENS Éditions
Ferdinand Buisson Interviews Collection
In this book, the authors offer readers from all backgrounds clarification on the many concepts currently used in relation to environmental issues: education for sustainable development, ecological transition, climate emergency, anthropocene, sustainability, durability, and biodiversity preservation. These terms often originate from different fields of knowledge and are too often confused. This tenth volume in the collection brings together six contributions that examine the foundations and possible directions of education for ecological transition in schools.
The texts explore, in particular, the tension between technical adjustments to existing programmes and the need for a more radical transformation of the education system to address contemporary environmental issues. They address the pedagogical, epistemological and political challenges of this integration, while analysing the professional attitudes that this implies for teachers.
This collection is, in a way, a plea for a more critical, political and emancipatory approach to education, drawing on contributions from multiple disciplines in order to initiate a genuine educational transformation commensurate with social and ecological emergencies.