Rolf Jucker Book order

Our Common Illiteracy takes seriously the international consensus that Education for Sustainability (EfS) is crucial to the survival of humankind. It establishes the principles of a sustainable society and performs a rigorous assessment of the reasons for our unsustainable present. Only on that foundation, it is argued, can the role of education in the transition to a sustainable society be meaningfully assessed. Such an approach is by necessity complex, transdisciplinary and broad. It has to acknowledge the limited significance of education within contemporary society, along with other ‘educators’ such as the media, the economy and the shadow curriculum of institutional practice. The book ends with 28 practical strategies to foster Education for Sustainability.

Peter Bichsel is arguably the most popular, possibly the most widely read, though maybe not the most critically acclaimed living Swiss German writer. This is the first book in English to be devoted exclusively to Peter Bichsel, and is intended as an introduction for the general reader and as a resource for the specialist.

The second title in the "Contemporary German Writers" series, this volume covers the work of Volker Braun. The series offers both basic information and an introduction to the work of the author in question, and contains critical assessments of the works.