Penulis

Rangga Kala Mahaswa, Siti Murtiningsih, Kafa Abdallah Kafaa

Judul

Geo-philosophising the Anthropocene curriculum: Towards a new environmental education in Indonesia

Abstract

The discourse on Environmental Education (EE) in Indonesia is a relatively limited discussion in philosophy. Throughout its educational curriculum history, the Indonesian educational institutional positioning of EE has had an additional subject study after general subjects, such as science and social humanities. Currently, the planetary crisis caused by mass anthropogenic waste has hindered new environmental government policies from transforming and aligning themselves with this critical situation. This article details the geo-philosophical perspective of the Anthropocene curriculum to redefine how EE should be understood today. By investigating the intersection of education and philosophy, this study seeks to develop a novel approach to addressing the complexities of the Anthropocene epoch. This conceptual study then shows the idea of geo-philosophy in order to (1) examine the current EE behind the Anthropocene curriculum that is still oriented toward anthropocentrism and (2) offer several alternative insights into the development of future curricula which is Anthropocene-informed. Geophilosophy, the article argues, provides an alternative idea for the education of the future by connecting students and their relations with real environmental calamity rather than romanticising the idea of harmonisation human-nature in the past.

Fulltext

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2025.2562213