Full Description
This edited volume collates over a decade of Greg William Misiaszek's work on ecopedagogy, with a new focus on insights and possibilities for global citizenship education (GCE) scholarship. Rooted in critical theories and originating from Paulo Freire's popular education models of Latin America, ecopedagogy is centered on understanding the struggles of, and the connections between, human acts of environmental violence, social injustices, and Nature's unsustainability. The book brings together diverse understandings of ecopedagogy, introduces key concepts of teaching for local-to-planetary citizenship, and explains how both are essential for socio-environmental justice and planetary sustainability. Grouped into three parts, it includes new, detailed introductions, with crucial GCE threads explored throughout the chapters. This includes discussions of how non-critical teaching for (environmentally) sustainable development that opposes critical GCE's essence instills anti-environmentalism, rather than countering it. As a comprehensive and fresh curation of Misiaszek's work on timely and critical topics, it will appeal to academic scholars, educational researchers, teachers, and social/environmental movement leaders/participants, among others, who have interests in GCE, environmental sustainability, sustainable development, environmental teaching, and social-environmental justice.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction: Critically Teaching Development with Local-to-Planetary Citizenships 1. Ecopedagogy: Teaching Critical Literacies of 'Development,' 'Sustainability,' and 'Sustainable Development' 2. An Ecopedagogical, Ecolinguistical Reading of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): What We Have Learned from Paulo Freire 3. Environmental Education through Global and Local Lenses: Ecopedagogy and Globalizations in Appalachia, Argentina, and Brazil Part 2: Introduction: Ecopedagogical Teaching and Literacy within Global Citizenship 4. Countering Post-Truths through Ecopedagogical Literacies: Teaching to Critically Read 'Development' and 'Sustainable Development' 5. Six Critical Questions for Teaching Justice-Based Environmental Sustainability (JBES) in Higher Education 6. Ecopedagogical Literacy of a Pandemic: Teaching to Critically Read the Politics of COVID-19 with Environmental Issues 7. 'Hard spaces' of Global Citizenship Education: A Comparative Analysis through Ecopedagogical, Linguistic, and Feminist Lenses 8. Critically Countering Appropriations of Global Citizenship Education in the India Context: Hard, Gated, and Unmentionable Part 3: Introduction: Non-anthropocentric Teaching with Local-To-Planetary Citizenship 9. Ecopedagogy: Freirean Teaching to Disrupt Socio-Environmental Injustices, Anthropocentric Dominance, and Unsustainability of the Anthropocene 10. De-Distancing 'Us' from the Rest of Earth: Ecopedagogical Analysis and Approaches 11. COVID-19 Foreshadowing Earth's Environmental Tipping Point: Education's Transformation Needed to Avoid the Ledge
