Globalisation and education for sustainable development : emancipation from context and meaning
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- Stefan L. Bengtsson and Leif O. Ostman
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- This article tries to contribute to the critical debate on the ideological and globalising potential of education for sustainable development (ESD), which exists in the research field of environmental education, by highlighting potential contradictions in the argumentation for ESD's ideological and globalising tendency. Further, the authors of this article argue for an alternative perspective on how education policy on ESD can be seen to contribute to globalisation and homogenisation by merging two conceptualisations of globalisation as connection' and the role of empty signifiers' in political discourse. The ambition with the merger is not to provide a universal explanation of globalisation and ideology, instead, the intention is to outline an alternative theoretical outlook that allows for an empirical study of the processes that can be seen to feed into or interrupt the preservation of hegemony in a global setting.
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- education for sustainable development, environmental education, globalisation, discourse analysis, ideology, space
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8646267
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- Bengtsson, Stefan L., and Leif O. Ostman. “Globalisation and Education for Sustainable Development : Emancipation from Context and Meaning.” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, vol. 19, no. 4, 2013, pp. 477–98, doi:10.1080/13504622.2012.709822.
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- Bengtsson, S. L., & Ostman, L. O. (2013). Globalisation and education for sustainable development : emancipation from context and meaning. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, 19(4), 477–498. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2012.709822
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- Bengtsson, Stefan L., and Leif O. Ostman. 2013. “Globalisation and Education for Sustainable Development : Emancipation from Context and Meaning.” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH 19 (4): 477–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2012.709822.
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- Bengtsson, Stefan L., and Leif O. Ostman. 2013. “Globalisation and Education for Sustainable Development : Emancipation from Context and Meaning.” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH 19 (4): 477–498. doi:10.1080/13504622.2012.709822.
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- 1.Bengtsson SL, Ostman LO. Globalisation and education for sustainable development : emancipation from context and meaning. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH. 2013;19(4):477–98.
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- [1]S. L. Bengtsson and L. O. Ostman, “Globalisation and education for sustainable development : emancipation from context and meaning,” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 477–498, 2013.
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abstract = {{This article tries to contribute to the critical debate on the ideological and globalising potential of education for sustainable development (ESD), which exists in the research field of environmental education, by highlighting potential contradictions in the argumentation for ESD's ideological and globalising tendency. Further, the authors of this article argue for an alternative perspective on how education policy on ESD can be seen to contribute to globalisation and homogenisation by merging two conceptualisations of globalisation as connection' and the role of empty signifiers' in political discourse. The ambition with the merger is not to provide a universal explanation of globalisation and ideology, instead, the intention is to outline an alternative theoretical outlook that allows for an empirical study of the processes that can be seen to feed into or interrupt the preservation of hegemony in a global setting.}},
author = {{Bengtsson, Stefan L. and Ostman, Leif O.}},
issn = {{1350-4622}},
journal = {{ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH}},
keywords = {{education for sustainable development,environmental education,globalisation,discourse analysis,ideology,space}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{4}},
pages = {{477--498}},
title = {{Globalisation and education for sustainable development : emancipation from context and meaning}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2012.709822}},
volume = {{19}},
year = {{2013}},
}
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