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Restorying Environmental Education

Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Draws upon new materialist theories to address environmental education and ecological thought
  • Attempts to explore the implications for educational theory and provides concrete real-world example of theory in practice
  • Makes complex theories approachable and understandable by exploring autobiographical stories of educational development and understanding, helping to foster a tangible relationship between theory and practice

Part of the book series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide (CSWW)

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About this book

This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a class of grade 4-6 students around the lost streams of Vancouver. The resulting work explores the contradictions gathered in relation to the Western educational system and the encounter with “Other” (real and imaginary others), including the shifting and growing “self,” and an attempt to find and foster nourishing alliances for transforming environmental education. Drawing on the work of new materialist theorists Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Karen Barad, Adsit-Morris considers the co-constitutive materiality of human corporeality and nonhuman natures and provides useful tools for finding creative theoretical alternatives to the reductionist, representationalist, and dualistic practices of the Western metaphysics. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    Chessa Adsit-Morris

About the author

Chessa Adsit-Morris is a curriculum theorist and member of the Center for Creative Ecologies. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Restorying Environmental Education

  • Book Subtitle: Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities

  • Authors: Chessa Adsit-Morris

  • Series Title: Curriculum Studies Worldwide

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48796-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48795-3Published: 20 February 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48796-0Published: 09 February 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2731-6386

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-6394

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 151

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Environmental Sociology, Creativity and Arts Education

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eBook USD 44.99
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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