Aesthetics, Sustainability and Education

The senior researchers were asked to provide one or two references which have inspired their work. The resulting list of readings is given here both to provide a bit of common background to the workshop and in the hope that some of the references might inspire others as well.

Carson, Rachel. The Sense of Wonder. HarperCollins, 2017.

Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World. 2nd ed., John Murray, 1845.

Hepburn, Ronald W. Landscape and Metaphysical Imagination. Environmental Values 5(3), 1996, pp. 191–204.

Lear, Jonathan. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Harvard University Press, 2008.

Lopez, Barry. Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1986.

Ojala, Maria. Facing Anxiety in Climate Change Education: From Therapeutic Practice to Hopeful Transgressive Learning. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 21, 2017, pp. 41–56.

Orr, David W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. State University of New York Press, 1992, pp. 85–95.

Schiller, Friedrich. Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man. Translated by Reginald Snell, Yale University Press, 1954.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Wilson, Edward O. Biophilia. Harvard University Press, 1984.