An Ignorance-Based Education: Wendell Berry and the Limits of Human Knowledge

• In Event: Pedagogies of Responsibility as Relationships of Healing: Wendell Berry, Eco-Justice, and Education

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate and incorporate Berry’s meaning of ignorance for educational research and practice in an age of reigning cultural arrogance and totalizing ecological catastrophe.

Author

• John Mullen, Eastern Michigan University