Reimagining Science Education In The Anthropocene

Author : Maria F. G. Wallace,Jesse Bazzul,Marc Higgins,Sara Tolbert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030796228

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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene by Maria F. G. Wallace,Jesse Bazzul,Marc Higgins,Sara Tolbert Pdf

This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that science education—the way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratories—is ill-equipped and ill-conceived to deal with the expansive and urgent contexts of the Anthropocene. Paying homage to myopic knowledge systems, rigid state education directives, and academic-professional communities intent on reproducing the same practices, knowledges, and relationships that have endangered our shared world and shared presents/presence is misdirected. This volume brings together diverse scholars to reimagine the field in times of precarity.

Author : Maria F. G Wallace,Jesse Bazzul,Marc Higgins,Sara Tolbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 303079623X

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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene by Maria F. G Wallace,Jesse Bazzul,Marc Higgins,Sara Tolbert Pdf

Author : Sara Tolbert,Maria F.G. Wallace,Marc Higgins,Jesse Bazzul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031354304

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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2 by Sara Tolbert,Maria F.G. Wallace,Marc Higgins,Jesse Bazzul Pdf

This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this contemporary geologic time. This work continues the mission of transforming the ways communities inherit science and technology education: its knowledges, practices, policies, and ways-of-living-with-Nature. Our understanding of the Anthropocene is necessarily open and pluralistic, as different beings on our planet experience this time of crisis in different ways. This second volume continues to nurture productive relationships between science education and fields such as science studies, environmental studies, philosophy, the natural sciences, Indigenous studies, and critical theory in order to provoke a science education that actively seeks to remake our shared ecological and social spaces in the coming decades and centuries. This is an open access book.

Author : Gregory P. Thomas,Helen J. Boon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031180927

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Challenges in Science Education by Gregory P. Thomas,Helen J. Boon Pdf

This edited volume focuses on challenges facing science education across three areas: curriculum, teacher education, and pedagogy. Integrating a diverse range of perspectives from both emerging and established scholars in the field, chapters consider the need for measured responses to issues in society that have become pronounced in recent years, including lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, the environment, and persisting challenges in STEM teaching and learning. In doing so, the editors and their authors chart a potential course for existing and future possibilities and probabilities for science education.

Author : Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Renaud Hétier,Jean-Philippe Pierron,Christoph Wulf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031400216

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Political Education in the Anthropocene by Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Renaud Hétier,Jean-Philippe Pierron,Christoph Wulf Pdf

This book articulates an educational theory as well as a political theory of the Anthropocene. Divided into three sections it addresses educational anthropology, cultures and institutions, and educational recommendations in the Anthropocene. Topics covered in the volume measure the impact of the idea of the Anthropocene on the type of anthropology that underlies education and on a phenomenology of relationship. It links the notion of the Anthropocene with cultures and institutions so as not to 'smooth out' or erase the latter. Finally, it presents proposals and recommendations for educational practices. The work advocates rethinking education as an essential component in ensuring the sustainability of human life in society - by proposing to go beyond the approach of education for sustainable development or environmental education. The work also brings together empirical contributions in which proposals are elaborated for programs, pedagogical devices and experiments relating to the preparation of the future in the field of education. This volume is of interest to researchers of the Anthropocene.

Author : Karen Malone,Son Truong,Tonia Gray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811025501

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Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times by Karen Malone,Son Truong,Tonia Gray Pdf

This book reflects the considerable appeal of the Anthropocene and the way it stimulates new discussions and ideas for reimagining sustainability and its place in education in these precarious times. The authors explore these new imaginings for sustainability using varying theoretical perspectives in order to consider innovative ways of engaging with concepts that are now influencing the field of sustainability and education. Through their theoretical analysis, research and field work, the authors explore novel approaches to designing sustainability and sustainability education. These approaches, although diverse in focus, all highlight the complex interdependencies of the human and more-than-human world, and by unpacking binaries such as human/nature, nature/culture, subject/object and de-centring the human expose the complexities of an entangled human-nature relation that are shaping our understanding of sustainability. These messy relations challenge the well-versed mantras of anthropocentric exceptionalism in sustainability and sustainability education and offer new questions rather than answers for researchers, educators, and practitioners to explore. As working with new theoretical lenses is not always easy, this book also highlights the authors’ methods for approaching these ideas and imaginings.

Author : Tristan Gleason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000471342

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A Critical Ethnography of an Outdoor School by Tristan Gleason Pdf

By using critical ethnographic research to explore the practices and policies that sustain a residential outdoor school in the United States, this book problematizes the relationship between science education and climate change politics in the United States. Weaving together empirical data from fieldwork with theoretical resources spanning the sciences and humanities, this book demonstrates how community activism, political alliances, and policy changes have guaranteed the survival of an outdoor school in Oregon. This example enables artful reexamination of the relationship between science education, politics, and policy more broadly, as well as the relation of science education to climate change politics in particular. Gleason ultimately reconstructs science education towards epistemic and ontological pluralism, and illustrates how critical ethnographic research can instigate a reimagining of the relationship between curriculum and how we relate to the world. This book will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in the philosophical underpinnings and implications of science education, environmental education, and educational policy more broadly. Those specifically interested in critical ethnographic research will also benefit from this book.

Author : Nathanaël Wallenhorst
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031377389

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A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene by Nathanaël Wallenhorst Pdf

This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and a post-Promethean approach. This work explores the idea of ​​an anthropological mutation of political consolidation from a “post-Promethean togetherness”, to creating the capacity to act together. The political thinking of the human condition developed by Hannah Arendt is important here as a resource for thinking about humanity in terms of human adventure. This has three dimensions: hubris, the world and coexistence referring respectively to the logic of profit of the homo oeconomicus, the logic of responsibility of the homo collectivus and the logic of the hospitality of the homo religatus. The intellectual and political attitude outlined in this book is an extension of critical theory: the work also puts forward a critique of what poses a problem in our relationship to the world and suggests how to overcome it, the ultimate goal being social transformation. The author propose an uprising and an anthropological consolidation of politics based on the revitalization that is brought about by the sharing of a conviviality both between humans and with what is non-human. The identification of conviviality as an educational paradigm to survive the Anthropocene gives us the much needed reason for hope despite this heritage of the Anthropocene. In addition to Arendtian thinking, this critical theory for the Anthropocene draws on the political thinking of several contemporary authors including Maurice Bellet, Hartmut Rosa, Andreas Weber, Dominique Bourg, and Christian Arnsperger. This volume is of interest to researchers in the Anthropocene.

Author : Carol A. Taylor,Annouchka Bayley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030146726

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Posthumanism and Higher Education by Carol A. Taylor,Annouchka Bayley Pdf

This book explores ways in which posthumanist and new materialist thinking can be put to work in order to reimagine higher education pedagogy, practice and research. The editors and contributors illuminate how we can move the thinking and doing of higher education out of the humanist cul-de-sac of individualism, binarism and colonialism and away from anthropocentric modes of performative rationality. Based in a reconceptualization of ontology, epistemology and ethics which shifts attention away from the human towards the vitality of matter and the nonhuman, posthumanist and new materialist approaches pose a profound challenge to higher education. In engaging with the theoretical twists and turns of various posthumanisms and new materialisms, this book offers new, experimental and creative ways for academics, practitioners and researchers to do higher education differently. This ground-breaking edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of posthumanism and new materialism, as well as those looking to conceptualize higher education as other than performative practice.

Author : Michael Paulsen,jan jagodzinski,Shé M. Hawke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030909802

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Pedagogy in the Anthropocene by Michael Paulsen,jan jagodzinski,Shé M. Hawke Pdf

This book explores new pedagogical challenges and potentials of the Anthropocene era. The authors argue that this new epoch, with an unstable climate, new kinds of globally spreading viruses, and new knowledges, calls for a new way of educating and an alertness to new philosophies of education and pedagogical imaginations, thoughts, and practices. Addressing the linkages between the Anthropocene and Pedagogy across a broad pedagogical spectrum that is both formal and informal, the editors and their contributors emphasize a re-imagining of education that serves to deepen our understanding of the capacities and values of life.

Author : Nataša Lacković
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031470448

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Rethinking Education and Emancipation by Nataša Lacković Pdf

Author : Özge Can Dogmus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781040042250

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Water Politics and the On-Paper Hydropower Boom by Özge Can Dogmus Pdf

This book examines how the on-paper hydropower boom impacts the safe and fair access to water and energy in emerging economies. The global hydropower boom is largely made up of small hydropower plants located in emerging economies, but a lack of funding, over-ambitious planning, and corruption have halted the production of these projects. Describing this state as the ‘on-paper’ hydropower boom, this book shifts attention to the hydrosocial problems arising from hydropower projects that remain on paper. It examines how these proposed but unbuilt projects can lead to disruptions in the control and governance of water resources and increase the international dependence of emerging countries due to deep problems in their sustainable development planning and how all this can affect both ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. In doing so, it critically examines the dominant discourses on energy security and sustainable development, emphasises the extent to which the effects of global imperialism are at play, and examines the effects of international power relations in the hydrosocial context and their implications for perpetuating international relations of dependency. Further, this book provides a unique perspective on the global hydropower boom by highlighting that although the global hydropower boom largely remains on paper, it can still have a significant impact on human–water systems. Contributing to the debate on hydrosocial relationships, each chapter offers an insightful examination of the social, cultural, and political interactions that humans have with water and uses these insights to provide a nuanced understanding of the challenges and issues associated with on-paper plans. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water politics, water governance, political ecology, corruption and environmental economics, as well as sustainable development policymakers.

Author : Vandana Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781003835059

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Teaching Climate Change by Vandana Singh Pdf

Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice shows educators how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective and in a transdisciplinary way, drawing on examples from the author's own classroom. The book sets out a radical vision for climate pedagogy, introducing an innovative framework in which the scientific essentials of climate change are scaffolded via three transdisciplinary meta-concepts: Balance/Imbalance, Critical Thresholds and Complex Interconnections. Author Vandana Singh grounds this theory in practice, drawing on examples from her own classroom to provide implementable ideas for educators, and to demonstrate how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective in a transdisciplinary way. The book also explores the barriers to effective climate education at a macro level, focusing on issues such as climate misinformation/misconception, the exclusion of social and ethical concerns and a focus on technofixes. Singh uses this information to identify four key dimensions for an effective climate pedagogy, in which issues of justice are central: scientific-technological, the transdisciplinary, the epistemological and the psychosocial. This approach is broad and flexible enough to be adapted to different classrooms and contexts. Bridging the social and natural sciences, this book will be an essential resource for all climate change educators practicing in both formal and informal settings, as well as for community climate activists.

Author : Petar Jandrić,Derek R. Ford
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030972622

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Postdigital Ecopedagogies by Petar Jandrić,Derek R. Ford Pdf

This book conceptualizes ecopedagogies as forms of educational innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals, objects, stuff, and other forms of matter. Contemporary postdigital ecosystems are determined by a range of new bioinformational reconfigurations in areas including capitalism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, and ontological hierarchies more generally. Postdigital ecopedagogies name a condition, a question, and a call for experimentation to link pedagogical research and practice to challenges of our moment. They pose living, breathing, expanding, contracting, fluid, and spatial conditions and questions of our non-chronological present. This book presents analyses of that present from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to education studies, philosophy, politics, sociology, arts, and architecture.

Author : Annette Gough
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781040032237

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Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives by Annette Gough Pdf

This timely book provides a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of gendered perspectives in environmental education research. Through bringing together selected writings of Annette Gough, it documents the evolving discussions of gender in environmental education research since the mid-1990s, from its origins in putting women on the agenda through to women’s relationships with nature and ecofeminism, as well as writings that engage with queer theory, intersectionality, assemblages, new materialisms, posthumanism and the more-than-human. The book is both a collection of Annette Gough, and her collaborators, writings around these themes and her reflections on the transitions that have occurred in the field of environmental education related to gender since the late 1980s, as well as her deliberations on future directions. An important new addition to the World Library of Educationalists, this book foregrounds women, their environmental perspectives, and feminist and other gendered research, which have been marginalised for too long in environmental education.