Full 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
