EcoPedagogy

G. Lummis - Globalisation: Building a Partnership ethic for an Ecopedagogy in Western Australia

This paper accommodates teachers with an interest in environmental education and links associated with Society and Environment, Science, and Technology and Enterprise learning areas. The role of globalisation and its impact upon environmental education reform are discussed. The Western Australian Curriculum Framework (Curriculum Council 1998) and the potential problems of metalanguage that a teacher faces when considering environmental reform are introduced.

R. Kahn - Towards Ecopedagogy: Weaving a Broad-based Pedagogy of Libertation for Animals, Nature, and the Oppressed People of the Earth

As we begin the 21st century on Earth, the living inhabitants of the planet stand positioned at the foot a great wave of social crisis and global ecological catastrophe. They are already nearly drowned in an ocean of Post-WWII social transformations, in economies of capital, and in the cultural revolution that has resulted from rapid advances in military science and technology - that which is frequently referred to under the moniker of "globalization."

R. Kahn - Questions on Ecopedagogy

What are some of the most important theories and practices that inform an Ecopedagogy? Specifically, how would you explicate the major discursive trends that are helping to establish Ecological Education as a contemporary field of study?

R. Kahn - The Educative Potential of Ecological Militancy in an Age of Big Oil: towards a Marcusean ecopedagogy

This article begins by tracing the conjunction between the birth of radical ecological politics and the New Left, then moves to a reconsideration of whether a Marcusean politics and culture of intolerance and resistance are legitimate under contemporary circumstances.

M. Heck - Cultural Narratives: Developing a Three-Dimensional Learning Community through Braided Understanding

Paula Underwood's Learning Stories braid together body, mind, and spirit to enable understanding that does not easily unravel. They tell of relationships among individual and community learning that parallel other ancient and contemporary ideas about learning in caring communities. Underwood's tradition considers learning sacred; everyone's voices and purposes are equally important to the whole, and each is enabled to learn in the most effective way.

M. Shupe & W. O'Connell - An Ecological Model for Counselor Pedagogy Incorporating Service Learning

This pilot study examined how one Graduate Counseling Program initiated improvements in counselor training pedagogy through incorporating a service-learning project with computer technology into an entry-level course for graduate students. The service learning experience was designed to advance university and community collaboration and teach students about social justice and advocacy in the field of mental health.

M. Gadotti - Pedagogy of the Earth and Culture of Sustainability

For the first time in the history of humanity, not because of the impact of nuclear weapons, but due to the lack of control in production, we may destroy all life on this planet. We may dub this possibility the era of extermination. We have moved from the production mode into the destruction mode; from this moment hence we shall have to constantly face the permanent challenge of reconstructing the planet. We have perhaps a little over 50 years to decide whether we wish to destroy or preserve the planet.

D. Gruenewald- The Best of Two World: A Critical Pedagogy of Place

Taking the position that "critical pedagogy" and "place-based education" are mutually supportive educational traditions, this author argues for a conscious synthesis that blends the two discourses into a critical pedagogy of place. An analysis of critical pedagogy is presented that emphasizes the spatial aspects of social experience.

R.Kahn - Paulo Freire and Eco-Justice: Updating Pedagogy of the Oppressed for the Age of Ecological Calamity

As a radical pedagogy and defense of the Third World, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed remains as timely as ever. Rooted in 'real and concrete hunger' experiences and informed by a critical understanding of transnational social structure and power, since its appearance in English in 1970, Freire's great text has run alongside (and mostly counter to) the globalization of technocapital and its resulting cycle of mass extinction and planetary oppression