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Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development


Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development

Hardback by Misiaszek, Greg William

Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development

£110.00

ISBN:
9781350083790
Publication Date:
15 Oct 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic
Pages:
288 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 - 26 May 2024
Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development

Description

To stop the downward spiral of intensifying environmental violence that inevitably leads to social violence we, as humans, need to better understand what is at stake and to determine how to make changes at the root levels. Ecopedagogy is centered on understanding the struggles of and connections between human acts of environmental and social violence. Greg W. Misiaszek argues that ecopedagogies grounded in critical, Freirean pedagogies construct learning that leads to human actions geared towards increased social and environmental justice and planetary sustainability. Throughout the book he discusses the need for teaching, reading, and researching through problematizing the causes of socio-environmental violence, including oppressive processes of globalization and constructs of "development", "economics", and "citizenship", to name a few, that emerge from socio-historical oppressions (e.g., colonialization, racism, patriarchy, neoliberalism, xenophobia, epistemicide) and dominance over the rest of nature. Misiaszek concludes with ecopedagogies' challenges within the current post-truth era and possibilities of reimagining UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Introduction to Ecopedagogy 1. Ecopedagogy: An Introduction 2. Ecopedagogical Literacy: Reading the World within Earth Part II: Foundations of Ecopedagogy 3. Freirean Reinventions: Ecopedagogy 4. Teaching for Ecopedagogical Praxis: Theories, Disciplines, and Positionalities Part III:Teaching Ecopedagogical Reading 5. Reading Through Diverse Epistemologies and Methodologies 6. Reading Through Citizenships: "Development," "Livelihood," and "Sustainability" Part IV: Conclusion: Ecopedagogical Possibilities and Challenges 7. Limit situations of Ecopedagogies: Post-Truthism and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) References Index

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