The Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ offers a lucid analysis of the current global crisis and defines possible solutions, under the aegis of responsibility. In this perspective, the essay enhances corporate practices oriented towards an integrated business concept in reference to B Corp movement: by contributing to social and environmental regeneration, B Corps connect economic system and education in a sustainability planning approach. In order to create a pedagogical tool to develop environmental consciousness, this essay’s educational aspect shares the same ethos with a business model that creates value by becoming “an educating community” itself, rooted in a spirit of collaboration. In line with the inter- and transdisciplinary approach promoted by integral ecology, in this essay sustainability is intended in a broad sense. It is interpreted as a fertile ground where to increase a critical exchange and a rich dialogue across environmental pedagogy and economic theory, concerning practices and tools contributing to increase human responsibility towards the whole planet.
L’Enciclica Laudato si’ articola un’analisi nitida della crisi planetaria e ne tratteggia le vie perseguibili per la risoluzione nel segno della responsabilità. In questa luce, il saggio valorizza le pratiche imprenditoriali proprie di una concezione armonica d’impresa con particolare riferimento al movimento B Corp che, contribuendo alla rigenerazione sociale e ambientale, rinsalda sistema economico e sistema educativo nell’ottica di una progettazione della sostenibilità. Lo studio muove dalla condivisione della dimensione etica con un modello di impresa che porta alla creazione di valore facendosi essa stessa “comunità educante” nel tessuto connettivo della collaborazione. In linea con l’approccio intra e transdisciplinare promosso dall’ecologia integrale, nel presente studio la sostenibilità lato sensu è humus fertile per accrescere, tra pedagogia dell’ambiente e teoria economica, un confronto critico e una dialettica feconda inerenti le pratiche e gli strumenti operativi che possano contribuire a edificare la responsabilità umana verso l’intero pianeta.
Meneghel, V., Environmental Pedagogy and B Corps for an Integral Ecology, in Bornatici, S., Galeri, P., Gaspar, Y., Malavasi, P., Vacchelli O, V. O. (ed.), Laudato si’ +5, Fratelli Tutti. Human development. A great cultural, spiritual, political, economic and educational challenge, Pensa MultiMedia, Lecce-Brescia 2021: 113- 124 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/177990]
Environmental Pedagogy and B Corps for an Integral Ecology
Meneghel, Valentina
2021
Abstract
The Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ offers a lucid analysis of the current global crisis and defines possible solutions, under the aegis of responsibility. In this perspective, the essay enhances corporate practices oriented towards an integrated business concept in reference to B Corp movement: by contributing to social and environmental regeneration, B Corps connect economic system and education in a sustainability planning approach. In order to create a pedagogical tool to develop environmental consciousness, this essay’s educational aspect shares the same ethos with a business model that creates value by becoming “an educating community” itself, rooted in a spirit of collaboration. In line with the inter- and transdisciplinary approach promoted by integral ecology, in this essay sustainability is intended in a broad sense. It is interpreted as a fertile ground where to increase a critical exchange and a rich dialogue across environmental pedagogy and economic theory, concerning practices and tools contributing to increase human responsibility towards the whole planet.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.