Rio+20. The future we want. Lectures.

Person and education identify foundationally constitutional elements of a pedagogical reflexion and the reference to the value of the person and\r\nto the various contexts of the educational experience relentlessly recur through the book. The volume outlines the reasons for an environmental education which aims at the analysis of the relation between human training and the environment with respect to diverse historical and social\r\naspects, by considering the challenges posed by the sustainability of\r\neconomical development and of political decision making.\r\nA “green” pedagogy is at stake, in order to learn and to be trained to\r\na planetary citizenship and to share the resources of the earth. A lifelong\r\neducation, between ecology of the environment and human ecology, demands\r\nto everyone an active commitment, onto which the blossoming\r\nof commonweal crucially depends.\r\nThe choice of the testimony (towards good life, equitable institution)\r\nand of the care (for others, in view of the respectfulness for the\r\nnatural environment) individuates the person as an act of educational\r\ndiscourse, as a complex harmony of the promising identity within the\r\nheart of production technology and of power frameworks, of sign systems\r\nand of self-edification. Person and education are conceived as a\r\npossibility and attestation of ulterior meanings, research and discourse\r\nwhich can be entrusted to human truth.\r\nThe great challenge of our time is to create ecologically sustainable\r\ncommunities, in which we can satisfy our needs and aspirations without\r\ndiminishing the chances of future generations.