Case of Poland: the imitative modernization to sustainable development? Cover Image

Przypadek Polski: od modernizacji imitacyjnej do zrównoważonego rozwoju?
Case of Poland: the imitative modernization to sustainable development?

Author(s): Jacek Malikowski
Subject(s): Education, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: imitative (dependent - superficial) modernization; sustainable development (lasted); environmental awareness; ecological thinking; education for the sustainable development;

Summary/Abstract: The concept as the system concept is arousing the sustainable development a lot doubts by comparing expressions in the name about contrary meanings. This notion coming originally from the forest administration region, in the 21st century immanently is connected with the ethicaleconomic concept of essential needs and with the idea of limited possibilities of the environmental global system. Accurately and briefly essence of the problem of exaggerated consuming the natural environment and intensifying antropopression is returning the determination “border of height”. Poland undergoing a systemic transformation so far more has common to the imitative modernization than the sustainable development. Hence also not there is a role of the education for overrating: natural, ecological, sozological and environmental in action to his thing. The both formal and unofficial education is shaping desired socially needs, attitudes and patterns of behaviour, including them in expected and useful environmentally and ecologically moral values and ethical principles. Based on not next to formulate it is possible strategies of education, environment-friendly action which would be well up to ecohumanistic existence. Concluding, success of the sustainable development – not only economies – is becoming possible thanks to the knowledge: natural, ecological, sozological, economic and ethical.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 25-63
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Polish
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