 | Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation: A Proposal for an Expanded Curriculum Subjects: Environment & Agriculture; Education; Environment and Sustainability; Health and Social Care; Education Policy & Politics; International & Comparative Education; Theory of Education; Environment & Health; Health & Society; Plant & Animal Ecology; Environmental Studies; Health Conditions; Biodiversity; Climate Change; Infectious Diseases; Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing. The book makes a case for the importance of education responding to significant threats; including climate change, pandemics, decline in global biodiversity, overpopulation, egoism, ideologies, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, inequality, artificial intelligence, and ignorance and the distortion of truth. Written by leading experts in their field based on cutting-edge research, the chapters explore these issues and offer suggestions for how education can address these problems in the future. This groundbreaking and highly topical book will be an essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education research, environmental studies, educational politics and organizational management. Herner Saeverot is Professor of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, and Professor II at NLA University College in Oslo, Norway. |
