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dc.contributor.authorPrice, Leigh
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-12T12:41:14Z
dc.date.available2023-10-12T12:41:14Z
dc.date.created2023-05-26T12:14:11Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationSouthern African Journal of Environmental Education. 39, 1-18.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0256-7504
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3096133
dc.descriptionOpen access. Copyright the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA) under a Creative Commons Attribution license, CC-BY-NC-SA.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that, in order for humanity to act timeously to ameliorate threats such as climate change, we would do well to heed the central tenets of Roy Bhaskar’s transcendental realism, which he also calls enlightened common sense. This is because transcendental realism is critical of the unnecessarily burdensome assumption allied with systems/complexity theory that statistical analyses and complex computer models are necessary and sufficient to deal with complex systems such as climate. To the contrary, from the perspective of transcendental realism, it is knowing ‘how things work’ – being enlightened – that is necessary, and often sufficient, to deal with complex systems. For example, in terms of climate change, knowing how the Greenhouse Effect works – that is, knowing how extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere heats the Earth – makes it as simple to decide to act to reduce carbon dioxide as knowing how gravity works makes it simple to decide not to step off a high-rise building. This does not detract from the further need to (preferably democratically) consider different action options, for which computer models can be a helpful tool. Transcendental realism also has implications for how environmental educators define climate and climate change and it provides an antidote to certain challenges posed by climate change deniers. Much of the critique applied in this article to systems/complexity theory can also be applied to posthumanism.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectclimate change educationen_US
dc.subjectRoy Bhaskaren_US
dc.subjectclimate scepticismen_US
dc.subjectcomplex systemsen_US
dc.subjectposthumanismen_US
dc.titleAn Enlightened Common Sense Approach to Environmental Education, with Special Reference to Climate Changeen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280en_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-18en_US
dc.source.volume39en_US
dc.source.journalSouthern African Journal of Environmental Education (SAJEE)en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.4314/sajee.v39.05
dc.identifier.cristin2149562
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