Gregory Bateson’s Search for “Patterns Which Connect” Ecology and Mind

Borden, Richard J.

doi:10.22459/her.23.02.2017.09

“…Rich Borden (2017), commenting on Whitehead's notion of process (as opposed to matter), argues that "what we take to be 'things' are actually more like 'events'; akin to standing waves that come and go over time, though they may appear to be permanent, they are variable, transitory concrescences". Being situated at the crest of such a standing wave-the embodied perspective-cannot but constantly present a challenge, one that is intuitively shared across embodiments.…”

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Ecocene Politics

Tănăsescu¹

2022

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Brussel and the Evaluating Democratic Politics in Europe (EDGE) Research Program. All have provided indispensable funding for seeing this project through. Mariana și Doru au lăsat mai multe urme decât se pot număra. Darurile lor nu se răsplătesc; se dau mai departe. Parts of this work have appeared in other forms before. Chapter 3 draws in part on the article 'Evocative Representation' published in Constellations (2020). Chapters 4 and 6 draw on 'Responsibility and the Ethics of Ecological Restoration ', Environmental Philosophy (2017).One of the central ideas of this book is that we all inherit, obliquely and largely unpredictably, practices and knowledge from varied and surprising sources. I therefore acknowledge my unpayable debt to ancestors living and spectral, human and non-human. They are the soil that nurture present and future life.

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“…Rich Borden (2017), commenting on Whitehead's notion of process (as opposed to matter), argues that "what we take to be 'things' are actually more like 'events'; akin to standing waves that come and go over time, though they may appear to be permanent, they are variable, transitory concrescences". Being situated at the crest of such a standing wave-the embodied perspective-cannot but constantly present a challenge, one that is intuitively shared across embodiments.…”

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6. Ecopolitical Ethics, Part II

Tănăsescu¹

2022

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Brussel and the Evaluating Democratic Politics in Europe (EDGE) Research Program. All have provided indispensable funding for seeing this project through. Mariana și Doru au lăsat mai multe urme decât se pot număra. Darurile lor nu se răsplătesc; se dau mai departe. Parts of this work have appeared in other forms before. Chapter 3 draws in part on the article 'Evocative Representation' published in Constellations (2020). Chapters 4 and 6 draw on 'Responsibility and the Ethics of Ecological Restoration ', Environmental Philosophy (2017).One of the central ideas of this book is that we all inherit, obliquely and largely unpredictably, practices and knowledge from varied and surprising sources. I therefore acknowledge my unpayable debt to ancestors living and spectral, human and non-human. They are the soil that nurture present and future life.

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“…Ecological illiteracy is a serious fundamental problem that is spreading in today's society, as Gregory Bateson pointed out years ago: "The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think". [16] (p. 89). This trend needs to be reversed in some way to re-establish contact with nature and to understand the causal relationship between man and nature, the relationship that forms the basis for sustainability.…”

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Storytelling as an Educational Tool in Sustainable Education

Hofman-Bergholm

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2022

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In this theoretical paper, a multidisciplinary framework is structured to enable the formation of a shared understanding of the need to combine education for sustainability, traditional knowledge, transformative learning, systems thinking, and storytelling. The paper summarizes results from some fairly new studies on sustainability implementation in education, recognizes problems, and provides alternative suggestions on how to address problems that prevent the integration of sustainability in education. An increase in ecological illiteracy in society and lost contact with nature seem to occur within the now-growing generation. In research literature, it is largely agreed that systems thinking needs to be developed in order to understand the concept of sustainability. Reviewing research in the field, systems dynamics, simulations, and case studies are highlighted as possible pedagogical tools to emerge in the understanding of sustainability. However, do we still only preform information transformation? To transform both education and society, transformative learning must be adopted. This paper would like to emphasize the capacity of storytelling to make sustainability more easily accessible. Storytelling as a pedagogical tool for learning sustainability is still a bit overshadowed, but the idea of sustainability can be traced far back in aboriginal cultures, where storytelling has been used to transfer traditional knowledge from one generation to the next.

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Gregory Bateson’s Search for “Patterns Which Connect” Ecology and Mind

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