Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments / edited by Jane Haladay and Scott Hicks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hicks, Scott (Brian Scott), editor.

Haladay, Jane, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Environmental aspects.

Education, Higher.

Environmentalism--Study and teaching (Higher).

Environmentalism.

Sustainability--Study and teaching (Higher).

Sustainability.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2017.

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.

Contents:

Unrooted : dislocation and the teaching of place / Jennifer L. Case

By the Lumbee River with Chad Locklear's "Swamp Posse" / Jane Haladay and Scott Hicks

Getting your feet wet : teaching climate change at ground zero / Daniel Spoth

Cutting through the smog : teaching about mountaintop removal at a university powered by coal / Brianna Burke

Teaching about biodiversity and extinction in a thawing Alaska : a reflection / Jennifer Schell

Letting the sheets of memory blow on the line : phantom limbs, world-ends, and the unremembered / Derek Owens

Student expectations, disciplinary boundaries, and competing narratives in a first-year sustainability cohort / Richard House, Mark Minster, and Corey Taylor

Connecting urban students to rural conservation through recovery plans for endangered species / Andrea Olive

Teaching critical food studies in rural North Carolina / Keely Byars-Nichols

Mindfulness, sustainability, and the power of personal practice / Jesse Curran

Ecological journeys : from higher education to the old farm trail / Barbara George

Meeting across ontologies : grappling with an ethics of care in our human-more-than-human collaborative work / Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Sarah Wright, Kate Lloyd, Paul Hodge, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru

Ganawendamaw : Anishinaabe concepts of sustainability / Margaret Noodin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62895-315-2

1-60917-546-8

OCLC:

1017609561