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This exciting new book advances current practice-based and theoretical knowledge around how youth defines and engages with consumerism to provoke a larger conversation within science and environmental education. It is also geared towards unveiling those literacy praxes that can assist youth to adopt more ethically-oriented consumerist habits. More specifically, this book studies how youth’s participation in the global consumer market intersects with media technologies, new literacies, as well as science and the environment from sociocultural perspectives. In addition, it considers how school science has mediated youth participation in hyper-consumerism, from food and technology to shelter ...
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A sociedade contemporânea organiza-se segundo um modelo econômico que se fundamenta na disponibilidade crescente do conhecimento, o qual, valorizado por sua natureza pragmática e utilitária, é tratado como mercadoria, sujeita à lógica do mercado financeiro global. Assim, ao desempenharem as atividades que lhes são inerentes, ou seja, a produção, a organização e a transmissão do conhecimento, as Instituições de Ensino Superior assumem uma tendência tecnicista e mercadológica, privilegiando percursos formativos que se preocupam com o domínio técnico altamente especializado e com a utilização instrumental de informações, mas que negligenciam aspectos humanísticos indispe...
Humanism has constantly proclaimed the belief that the only way to improve man's life on earth is to make man himself wiser and better. Unfortunately, the voice of the humanists has always been challenged by the loud and cheap promises of scientists, by the inflammatory tirades of politicians, and by the apocalyptic visions of false prophets. Material greed, nonsensical chauvinism, racial prejudice, and religious antagonism have progressively defiled the inner beauty of man. Today's bankruptcy of man's dignity in the midst of an unparalleled material abundance calls for an urgent revival of humanistic ideals and values. This book was planned from its very start as a modest step in that direc...