How can we meet the UN Challenge 10 to restore society’s relationship with the Ocean? One important group of society is the one working in Ocean-related occupations. It is therefore important to critically assess what kind of human-Ocean relationship is conveyed in academic marine education, when young adults (age 18+) prepare for their professional careers as decision makers in Ocean development. Around 3300 Academic Marine Education Programmes (AMEPs) around the world hold the potential to restore the Ocean-relationship of thousands of people. A major problem for the current destructive and exploitative human-Ocean relationship is the instrumentalising and oppressive perspective western humanity takes on the Ocean. The concepts of Sustainability, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and Speciesism are identified as possible solutions to shift the exploitative paradigm to a respectful and valuing human-Ocean relationship. The implementation of these concepts in current academic marine education is investigated in the agricultural sector of aquaculture and fisheries. While the concept of Sustainability is present in almost all analysed curricula, TEK is rarely found, and Speciesism is entirely absent. This chapter presents an analysis of randomly selected AMEPs in the agricultural sector from around the world, identifying emerging patterns in curricular focus, with particular attention to concepts related to TEK in the curricula.

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The Global Marine Curriculum: Academic Pathways for Sustainable Marine Development

  • Ninja Mueller

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How can we meet the UN Challenge 10 to restore society’s relationship with the Ocean? One important group of society is the one working in Ocean-related occupations. It is therefore important to critically assess what kind of human-Ocean relationship is conveyed in academic marine education, when young adults (age 18+) prepare for their professional careers as decision makers in Ocean development. Around 3300 Academic Marine Education Programmes (AMEPs) around the world hold the potential to restore the Ocean-relationship of thousands of people. A major problem for the current destructive and exploitative human-Ocean relationship is the instrumentalising and oppressive perspective western humanity takes on the Ocean. The concepts of Sustainability, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and Speciesism are identified as possible solutions to shift the exploitative paradigm to a respectful and valuing human-Ocean relationship. The implementation of these concepts in current academic marine education is investigated in the agricultural sector of aquaculture and fisheries. While the concept of Sustainability is present in almost all analysed curricula, TEK is rarely found, and Speciesism is entirely absent. This chapter presents an analysis of randomly selected AMEPs in the agricultural sector from around the world, identifying emerging patterns in curricular focus, with particular attention to concepts related to TEK in the curricula.