Transcript Knowing Creation: Using faith in environmental education

Knowing Creation:
Using Faith in Environmental
Education
Najma Mohamed
PhD Candidate
Education Faculty
Stellenbosch University
The environmental crisis requires not only scientific and technological
fixes, but moral solutions since environmental degradation can largely
be ascribed to “human failings as well as foulings” such as greed,
extravagance and wastage (Iqtedar Zaidi 1981)
Masjid / Mosque
Madrassah and
University
(Tertiary Education)
Maktab
(Elementary Islamic
Education)
Muslim School
(Elementary and
Secondary
Education)
Other
e.g. social and relief
organizations;
NGOs; media
If we’re going to achieve sustainability, we have to
be inspired by the values and visions which we find
in the sphere of ethics, morality, spirituality and
religion – in other words, in faith.
(Satish Kumar 2011)