Professor Andrew Brennan
Chair in
Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Perth, Westtern Australia, 6907
Facsimile: (08) 9380 1057
Telephone: (08) 9380 2107 / 2106
E-mail: abrennan@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
5
October 1999
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Mauro
Grün
Mauro Grün has been a PhD student under my
supervision at The University of Western Australia
for the last four years. He came highly recommended from his previous university,
The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he had been a prize-winning Master's
student.
Mauro's
work is an extremely convincing example of how theoretical analysis can be combined
with practical suggestions and recommendations. His project re-integrates environmental
education with education theory as a whole, taking as its primary orientation
the hermeneutics of Hans Georg Gadamer. In pursuing the research, Mauro has developed highly original material, not only on Gadamer and the
relation of his thought
to that of Jürgen Habermas, but also on bioregionalism, and the ways in
which the
environment can serve as a text.
As a
result of his researches, Mauro has shown that there exists a significant area
of silence within
education, and has addressed ways of inserting a pluralist and
transdisciplinary component
of environmental studies within the curriculum. By examining the potential of the
bioregional and textual perspectives he shows that there are many practical
ways in which
the school curriculum can be restructured to correct its present neglect of the environment
and its role in human life and history.
During
his time in Western Australia, Mauro has given a number of successful papers
here and at
conferences elsewhere. His most recent paper was characterised not only by a
high level of
scholarly and philosophical rigour, but also by his extremely able defence of
his views in
discussion. A colleague from another university commented that Mauro's behaviour
in discussion was an outstanding example how philosophical debate should be conducted:
he showed a sympathetic grasp of the points being put, and while defending his own
position vigorously, and always engaged with others in a constructive way. I heartly agreed
with this assessment of the seminar.
I am pleased to recommend Mauro Grün for a teaching post in Philosophy without any reservations
whatever, and wish I him every success in his future career, I wil also be pleased to
supply any further information on request.
Andrew
Brennan
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