Place and Personal Commitment In Teaching Environmental Ethics

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" Place and Personal Commitment In Teaching Environmental Ethics "
Philip Cafaro

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1086231
Doc. No	:	LA129860
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1568535042690727‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Philip Cafaro
Title & Author	:	Place and Personal Commitment In Teaching Environmental Ethics [Article]\ Philip Cafaro
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2004
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/2-3
Page No	:	366–376
Abstract	:	This essay, a personal account of teaching environmental ethics, advances two main points. First, focusing on local environmental issues makes for better classes. Teachers can take advantage of local environmental expertise at their institutions and in the wider community; local focus provides a good balance given philosophy's tendency to abstractness; students tend to feel more engaged and excited about the class. Second, environmental ethics classes should spend more time helping students articulate their own ethical positions and showing them how to act upon them. In this way, our classes will better prepare and inspire students to do right by nature. This essay, a personal account of teaching environmental ethics, advances two main points. First, focusing on local environmental issues makes for better classes. Teachers can take advantage of local environmental expertise at their institutions and in the wider community; local focus provides a good balance given philosophy's tendency to abstractness; students tend to feel more engaged and excited about the class. Second, environmental ethics classes should spend more time helping students articulate their own ethical positions and showing them how to act upon them. In this way, our classes will better prepare and inspire students to do right by nature.
Descriptor	:	COMMITMENT
Descriptor	:	CONSUMPTION
Descriptor	:	ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Descriptor	:	PLACE
Descriptor	:	TEACHING
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1568535042690727‬