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At Home in the World|Eilon Schwartz

At Home in the World : Human Nature, Ecological Thought, and Education After Darwin

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Explores how Darwin's theory of human nature can inform educational philosophy.

Challenging conventional understanding of humans as selfish and competitive at their core, At Home in the World asserts that we have evolved as a profoundly social species, biologically related to the rest of the natural world, and at home on the only planet for which we are adapted to live. Eilon Schwartz traces the history of Darwinism, examining attempts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to apply Darwin's theories to educational philosophy and analyzing trends since the reemergence of Darwinism toward the end of the twentieth century. Identifying with the Darwinian interpretations of Peter Kropotkin, John Dewey, and Mary Midgley, Schwartz argues for a compelling educational philosophy rooted in our best scientific understandings of human nature.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781438426259
  • ISBN-10: 1438426259
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publish Date: July 2009
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
  • Page Count: 229

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