Environmental otherness: ontological contributions to the foundations of environmental education

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https://doi.org/10.21501/23461780.4404

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Environmental education, Environmental otherness, Environmental crisis, Environmental ontology, Environmental epistemology, Environmental ethics

Abstract

The main purpose of this hermeneutic philosophical essay is to present the possibilities and contributions of environmental otherness to the field of the foundations of environmental education. To this end, at first, the work starts from the definition of otherness taking as a reference the approaches of Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Lévinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur. In a second moment, it shows how different environmental othernesses can be understood and develops them from the concepts of natures, intersubjectivity, diversity, language, spirituality, ancestrality, inequality and exclusion and complete environment. In addition to defining the concept of environmental otherness, the study considers that this concept creates comprehensive, dialogical, existential, political, denunciation and belonging possibilities for the
foundations of environmental education that are expanded and recognized in these many environmental others.

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Author Biography

Vilmar Alves Pereira, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

Environmental Educator, Doctor in Education and Philosopher. Professor at the Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana - UNINI - Mexico and Puerto Rico. Researcher at the Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná UNIOESTE in the Postgraduate Program in Sustainable Rural Development - PPGDRS, Brazil. Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - Level 2 in Education. ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2548-5086. E-mail: vilmar.alves@unini.edu.mx

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2022-11-01

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Alves Pereira, V. (2022). Environmental otherness: ontological contributions to the foundations of environmental education. Perseitas, 10, 449–470. https://doi.org/10.21501/23461780.4404

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