Rethinking Ecological and Economic Education: A Gestalt Shift
Author(s)
Clark, Mary E.
Abstract
Leaders in many less-developed parts of the world believe that the West has solved all the old economic and social problems, and that if the prescriptions of the West are followed, their problems will also be solved. What they fail to notice is the environmental destruction and social disintegration that Western economic behavior causes. This article discuses two systems of social organization, one based on competitive individualism and the other based on the concept of community. The author concludes that the later is essential for global sustainability and offers some implications for education in the principles of this system.
