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We argue that education for sustainability, with its platform of assisting individuals in making apparently informed decisions to create a more sustainable world, is at some distance from promoting more ethically-based environmental responsibility. If environmental education is to encourage environmental responsibility, then ethically challenging curricula should provide more suitable mechanisms to encapsulate a sense of what it means to care for country, described by Leopold as “an intense consciousness of land,” and foreseen decades ago with his concept of the land ethic.  \nRésumé  \nEn Australie, on a précipité l’acceptation de l’éducation pour la durabilité entant qu’enseignement régulier de l’initiation à l’environnement. Nous  \nsoutenons que l’éducation pour la durabilité, avec son programmed’assistance qui permet à l’individu de prendre des décisions supposées éclairées en vue de créer un monde plus durable, est loin de promouvoir une plus grande responsabilité environnementale basée sur l’éthique. Si le cours de sensibilisation à l’environnement doit encourager la responsabilité environnementale, alors le défi du programme scolaire qui prône l’éthique devrait fournir des mécanismes mieux adaptéspour encapsuler un sens dece que veut dire manifester un attachement profond au pays, tel qu’imaginé il y a quelques décenniespar Leopold, avec son idée de l’éthique de la terre etdépeint alors comme « une conscience intense de la terre ».  \nKeywords: Leopold, caring for country, education for sustainability, land ethic  \nIntroduction  \nCurrently in Australia there is a move from a discourse about environmental education toward one of education for sustainability (also referred to as learning for sustainability or sustainable development) (Department of Environment and Heritage, 2005; Tilbury, 2004; Tilbury & Cooke, 2005) . The Australian government’s “Research Priority Area \\#1” is An Environmentally Sustainable Australia (Australian Government Department of Education,  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 13 (1), 2008 73  \nScience and Training, 2007) . With such a momentum for educational change, we argue there is a need to critique this re-orientation of environmental education, especially as Jickling (1992, 1994) earlier commented on his concerns that education for sustainable development could be considered deterministic and lacks philosophical analysis. We suggest that Leopold’s essay, The Land Ethic , still retains relevance for environmental educators because it requires a critique of ethical relationships between benign environmental practices and potentially less benign economic perspectives, two of the so-called central pillars of education for sustainable development (Department of Environment and Heritage, 2005; Henderson & Tilbury, 2004; UNESCO, 2003) .  \nLeopold was asking that greater ethical consideration be given to the land, something that appears to be omitted from some interpretations of education for sustainability. In essence, Leopold’s land ethic:  \nreflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity. (Leopold, 2003, p. 45)  \nLeopold (2003) argued that our relationships with the land should be ethically based and founded on “love, respect and admiration”(p. 46)—qualities that often underpin ethical consideration of others. The value of the land ethic is that it is not location-specific or temporally specific. It relates to all situations where economic drivers have c","cbCaipLCWnAux8m0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipLCWnAux8m0","pdf",108274,16,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## An Australian Context","[{\"question\":\"What is the main claim about education for sustainability in Australia?\",\"answer\":\"Education for sustainability is argued to be mainstream but not closely aligned with fostering ethically grounded environmental responsibility.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Leopold’s land ethic relate to caring for country?\",\"answer\":\"Leopold’s land ethic reflects an ecological conscience and individual responsibility for the land’s health, expressed through concepts such as love, respect, and admiration.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do the authors believe Leopold’s essay remains relevant?\",\"answer\":\"They argue it supports critique of ethical relationships between environmental practices and economic perspectives, and helps address gaps in philosophical analysis within education for sustainability.\"}]","Does Education for Sustainability Encourage Leopold’s “Intense Consciousness of Land”? | PDF",1792084888]