Publisher's Synopsis
I'm sitting in a rented cabin on the coast of Maine with big, split-pane glass windows wrapping me in a sea of mist-soaked spruces and oaks when, with my wife in bed with a stomach flu and me downloading articles via my neighbor's Wi-Fi, I happen upon a paper by Martin (2007). In it, he explores the applicability of Nel Noddings' (1984; 2002) care theory to environmental ethics, and through that, to environmental education. As I read it, I found myself wholeheartedly agreeing with his attempt to try to adapt Noddings' particular, relational ethic to the human-nature relationship. In fact, I was thinking of doing that very thing in my own dissertation, which is why I was downloading care ethics articles in the first place. But when I got to page 59 in his essay, I realized that something antecedent was missing.
