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Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments
Book
2017
Published by:
Michigan State University Press
summary
Through pedagogical narratives, literary analyses, reflective essays, and collaborative dialogues, Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments explores the professional and intellectual tensions of curricula, pedagogies, and personal practices that honor the relationships of interspecies ecologies, reinhabit and reconceive wounded landscapes and wounding institutions, and allow us to reattune ourselves to new yet ancient frameworks for sustainability. For the writers here, fostering sustainability in higher education means focusing on place, creating positive relationships with humans and other beings, and creating administrative structures that will maintain new approaches for the long-term, showing how teaching environmentally is at once intensely site-specific yet powerfully global, deeply personal yet visibly public. Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments confronts the contexts that make environmental pedagogies difficult, the challenges to the well-being of the teacher-scholar, and the corrosive academic structures that compartmentalize knowledge and people. The collection simultaneously offers models for working through and within these challenges to advance understandings and ways of being on local, global, and personal levels that will turn the planetary tide toward effective and shared sustainability.
Table of Contents

Part 1. Confronting the Challenges of the Places We Are
Part 2. Rethinking What We Do, Remaking Curricular Ecologies
pp. 97-112
pp. 113-136
Part 3. Reinhabiting and Restoring Who and Where We Are
pp. 219-244
ISBN | 9781609175467 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9781611862645, 9781628953152, 9781628963151 |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 1017609561 |
Pages | 306 |
Launched on MUSE | 2018-01-03 |
Language | English |
Open Access | No |
Copyright
2017