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- Complexity, Systems Thinking and Practice
- Coping with Complexity
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Finding Meaning Without Consuming
- Being in the World
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- Citizen Engagement
- Re-Educating the Person
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Emotional Wellbeing
Emotional Wellbeing: the ability to research and reflect on the roots of emotional wellbeing. Morgan Phillips, Becoming Green
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What do we want learners to become? Do we want them to be shallow, individualistic, infantilised, anxiety ridden, status obsessed, selfish consumers? Or do we want them to have fulfilling and meaningful lives, characterised by generosity, intelligence, community spirit, stable levels of self-esteem and maturity? If our educational, political, societal and cultural systems continue to foster learners who will become the former, sustainability may well remain, as John Foster (2008) describes it, a ‘mirage’. If sustainability is to become a reality, we need learners to become the latter. Education has a very important role to play in realising this...This chapter will discuss the importance of understanding emotional wellbeing. It will argue that learners need to critique their own understandings of the ‘good life’ and the foundations of happiness.
