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This book explores community action within our more-than-human lifeworld, tackling post-Anthropocene challenges. It presents bold experiments, shifting from crisis study to asking, "How are we here?". It addresses key issues by moving beyond posthuman perspectives, integrating indigenous ways of being, resisting 'Doomer Culture', and rejecting blind 'Hopeism'. Part 1 focuses on Post-Anthropocene Pedagogies from an Education Studies perspective. Part 2 illustrates the power of these pedagogies, while Part 3 delves into literature on Post-Anthropocene Education. Part 4 illustrates the approach via case studies of teaching, the development of an NGO, and community art projects. The narrative emphasizes maintaining a two-way flow between human culture and nature, highlighting porous boundaries. It argues that mere knowledge won't cure or save the world. Instead, it advocates for leadership and civic engagement that enrich reconnection with place and stewardship.
The primary audience is within environmental education, sustainability studies, curriculum studies, post-human studies, sociology of education, and resource management as educational enterprise.
List of contents
Part I. Two Kinds of Introduction.- Chapter 1. Post-Anthropocene Pedagogies: An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Education Studies: An Introduction.- Part II. Pictures of Post-Anthropocene Imagination.- Chapter 3. The Regressive Phase.- Chapter 4. The Progressive Phase.- Chapter 5. The Analytic Phase.- Chapter 6. The Synthetic Phase.- Part III. Interlude: Resources for Post-Anthropocene Education.- Chapter 7. Digging into the Literature of Post-Anthropocene Pedagogies.- Chapter 8. Catalysts for Change.- Chapter 9. Magical Ecology: A Grand Abstraction for Connecting Our Bodies to Our Environment.- Part IV. Stories of Teaching and Learning for the Post-Anthropocene.- Chapter 10. Ear Cleaning.- Chapter 11. Everything & Nothing.- Chapter 12. Rethinking Gender & Sexuality Education.- Chapter 13. Sound Traumas.- Chapter 14. The Youth Mathematician Laureate Project.- Part V. Now.- Chapter 15. Here Together - All of Us.
About the author
Peter Appelbaum directs Education Studies at Arcadia University, USA, preparing students for careers in schools, community organizations, non-profits, international development, cultural institutions, and governments. He is the past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Vice-President of the International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Education, and Editor of the
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth.
