Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development (Bloomsbury Critical Education)

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 environmental justice and planetary sustainability. Teaching to understand the social aspects of environmental issues, from local to global to planetary perspectives, as well as through critical theoretical lenses, transdisciplinary scholarship, and diverse epistemologies (i.e., ways of knowing), is essential to determine actions for lasting changes toward environmental wellbeing. Reinventing Paulo Freire's terminology, teaching to read the World as part of Earth (i.e., ecopedagogical literacy) for praxis. Throughout the book he will discuss 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).

• | Author: Greg William Misiaszek
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: October 15, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350083798
• | ISBN-13: 9781350083790