Full Description
This book asks how education can be developed to facilitate the radical social, cultural and economic transformations needed to deal with the ongoing climate emergency. The author illuminates important links between the work currently being done in climate change and education and the broader and older theories of radical education: an area of education theory and practice that has long grappled with the question of how to use education to create a more just society. Highlighting both current work and long traditions that include popular, progressive, feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial education, the author draws on interdisciplinary research to make the case for how radical education can help tackle the climate change crisis. It will have direct relevance for scholars of environmental education and radical education as well as activists and practitioners.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Climate Crisis, Social Justice Education & the Project of Radical Social Change.- Chapter 2: Curriculum Struggles: Knowledge, Truth ... Action?.- Chapter 3: Nudging Behavior.- Chapter 4: Pedagogies of Hope & Fear.- Chapter 5: The Importance of Place.- Chapter 6: Children Can Change the World!.- Chapter 7: The Role of Self Interest.- Chapter 8: Learning Power & Taking Collective Action.
