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List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Introduction to Ecopedagogy
1. Ecopedagogy: An Introduction
2. Ecopedagogical Literacy: Reading the World within Earth
Part II: Foundations of Ecopedagogy
3. Freirean Reinventions: Ecopedagogy
4. Teaching for Ecopedagogical Praxis: Theories, Disciplines, and Positionalities
Part III:Teaching Ecopedagogical Reading
5. Reading Through Diverse Epistemologies and Methodologies
6. Reading Through Citizenships: “Development,” “Livelihood,” and “Sustainability”
Part IV: Conclusion: Ecopedagogical Possibilities and Challenges
7. Limit situations of Ecopedagogies: Post-Truthism and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
References
Index
About the author
Greg William Misiaszek is Associate Professor at the Institute of Education Theories, Beijing Normal University, China, and Assistant Director of Paulo Freire Institute, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
Summary
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 and environmental justice and planetary sustainability. Throughout the book he discusses 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).
Foreword
Develops critical, Freirean-based ecopedagogies to help lead to transformative actions for planetary justice and for globally inclusive development.
Additional text
This thoughtful book poses inconvenient and uncomfortable questions to neoliberal development models and provides critical thinking to read the “World” as part of the “Earth”. Ecopedagogy reinvents environmental education and sustainable development to be more effective in achieving global social justice and planetary environmental justice. Greg Misiaszek takes readers – scholars, students and educators – on a journey based on Freire’s later writing and critical pedagogy exploring the need of a paradigm shift in the environmental pedagogies, challenging us to rethink sustainable development and to critically deconstruct SDGs.
