Towards Critical Environmental Education (eBook)

Current and Future Perspectives

Aristotelis S. Gkiolmas, Constantine D. Skordoulis (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XIII, 173 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-50609-4 (ISBN)

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This volume discusses theory, philosophy, praxis and methods in Environmental and Ecological education, and considers the junction with the main visions and issues of Critical Pedagogy. The volume and its separate chapters address four axes, which can also be seen as the guidelines of the content as well as the central objectives of the book.

The first axis concerns the missing theoretical and practical pieces at this point in time. The volume considers the issues that are not included in contemporary Environmental Education, and thus, deprive it from critical orientations. This implies that in Environmental Education, very little discussion exists about the political, economic, racial, gender and class issues that in most cases govern the actions of leaders and stake-holders. The second axis concerns what has been done so far and in what directions. This involves descriptions of theoretical approaches or actual applied methodologies in the classroom, such as curricula or syllabus used or the kind of actions certain educators have taken to infuse the issues of justice and critical reflection within the Environmental Education teaching agenda. The third axis examines proposals. It looks at ways to enrich domains of Environmental Education with the argumentations of Critical Pedagogy. The fourth axis concerns the way in which proposals can be effectuated. This part contains specific methodologies and teaching sequences, depicting ways of including major aspects of Critical Pedagogy and Critical Education in Environmental Education. Examples are: Non-anthropocentric ecological approaches in the classroom, political activism in the Curricula, mixture of field activities and political activities.

Aristotelis S. Gkiolmas is a member of the Teaching Staff at the Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He obtained a Bachelor (B.Sc.) in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and he worked many years as a Science teacher, in all levels of the Greek Secondary Education. His research interests include Environmental Education, critical pedagogies, teaching about social and environmental Justice and understanding complexity in societies, in education and in Nature.

Constantine-(Kostas) Skordoulis is Professor of Epistemology and Didactical Methodology of Physics at the Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He teaches Environmental Ethics, Didactics of Science and Theory of Scientific Knowledge. He has published extensively on socio-scientific and environmental issues and has been involved in organizing the international conferences on critical education. His latest book is: 'From Environmental Ethics to Political Ecology: an ecosocialist perspective'.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Studies of Education
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Studies of Education
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 173 p. 9 illus., 5 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: contemporary education • Critical environmental education • critically thinking citizens • critical orientations • Critical pedagogy • critical thinking • Environmental education curriculum • Environmental problems • global warming • indigenous eco-wisdom • Learning and Instruction • Non-anthropocentric ecological approaches • political activism in Curricula • science education
• ISBN-10: 3-030-50609-6 / 3030506096
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-50609-4 / 9783030506094