A01=Greg William Misiaszek
Author_Greg William Misiaszek
Category=JNAM
critical pedagogy
ecopedaogy
education for sustainable development
environmental education
environmental justice
environmental teaching
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Paulo Freire
social justice
sustainability education
Product details
- ISBN 9781350292093
- Weight: 187g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Building on Paulo Freire’s educational theory and critical pedagogy movements, this book provides a short and accessible introduction to ecopedagogy – Freirean environmental teaching and environmentalism overall. Ecopedagogy offers a political and educational vision that strives for a critical, culturally relevant forms of knowledge centred on sustainability for securing the future of our planet, ending all forms of oppression, and ensuring peace globally. Using examples from around the globe, Misiaszek shows how different populations (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity) are affected in unbalanced ways by ongoing environmental destruction and argues that these systematic socio-environmental inequalities are ignored in much of environmental teaching. He argues through reinventing Freire’s work that environmental justice is inseparable to social justice and should be seen as part of wider debates around, for example, globalization, development, citizenship, racism, feminism, neo/colonialization, and linguistics. The book calls for global and local approaches to understanding socio-environmental issues beyond anthropocentric models (beyond humans) and epistemologies of the North (e.g., Western knowledges). Written for anyone with an interest in environmentalism this book offers news ways of thinking and teaching about environmental crises we are living through.
Greg William Misiaszek is a Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Education, Tohoku University, Japan, and an Associate Director of Paulo Freire Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
