Full Description
In Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education, the editors share a collection of chapters from diverse critical scholars in teacher education.
Teachers, and their students, are faced with demands that require teacher educators to work toward better preparing them to teach in a changed world—a world where diversity, human rights, sustainability, and democracy must be paramount. This text calls together teacher educators who address the complex ways that social and environmental injustices—like racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and speciesism—weave together to produce dangerous conditions for all life. The volume shares with readers a glimpse into alternatives possible for teaching that are situational, local, and in support of social justice and sustainability.
Contributors are: Marissa E. Bellino, Melissa Bradford, Greer Burroughs, Nataly Chesky, Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Alison Happel-Parkins, Kevin Holohan, Agnes C. Krynski, John Lupinacci, Emilia Maertens, Rebecca Martusewicz, Emma McMain, Michio Okamura, Clayton Pierce, Meneka Repka, Graham B. Slater, Silvia Patricia Solís, JT Torres, Rita Turner, Robert G. Unzueta and Mark Wolfmeyer.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education: An Introduction
John Lupinacci, Alison Happel-Parkins and Rita Turner
2 Learn Globally, Teach Locally: Developing an EcoJustice Stance among Preservice Teachers through a Critical Place-Based Pedagogical Model
Marissa E. Bellino and Greer Burroughs
3 Classroom Ecologies That (Re)Claim a Democratic Commons: A Dialogic Inquiry into Creative Coexistence and Value Creation in Teacher Praxis
Melissa Bradford and Michio Okamura
4 The Specter of Enclosure in School Gardens: An Ecocritical Pedagogy for the Educational Commons
Graham B. Slater, Robert G. Unzueta and Clayton Pierce
5 Saberes Curativos and Jardines-Huertos
Silvia Patricia Solís
6 For the Birds: The Pedagogical Value of Drawing on Relationship-Focused Nature Writing
Agnes C. Krynski
7 Bringing the Social and Ecological into Teacher Education: Place-Conscious Teacher Education for Cultivating Community Well-Being
Kevin J. Holohan
8 Anarchism, EcoJustice, and Earth Democracy: An Eco-Anarchic Social Studies for the 21st Century
Brandon Edwards-Schuth and John Lupinacci
9 The Greening of STEM: Teaching Mathematics Pedagogy within an Ecojustice Framework
Nataly Chesky and Mark Wolfmeyer
10 The Cost of Unsettling America: Math Education for EcoJustice
Emilia Maertens and Rebecca Martusewicz
11 Pedagogical Misanthropy in mother! Decentering the Human in Ecocritical Education
JT Torres, Emma McMain and John Lupinacci
12 "Educated by the Jungle": How Vedda Wisdom Can Impact Ecocritical Pedagogy
Meneka Repka
13 Afterword
John Lupinacci, Alison Happel-Parkins and Rita Turner
Index
