Overview
- Provides a strong theoretical background to a rising field that is rapidly gaining in importance
- Presents a firm bibliographical and theoretical reference
- Contains specific educational methodologies of the actions that should be taken
Part of the book series: Critical Studies of Education (CSOE, volume 14)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Critical environmental education
- critical pedagogy
- contemporary education
- critical orientations
- environmental problems
- critical thinking
- critically thinking citizens
- environmental education curriculum
- science education
- Global warming
- indigenous eco-wisdom
- Non-anthropocentric ecological approaches
- political activism in Curricula
- learning and instruction
About this 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 curriculaor 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards Critical Environmental Education
Book Subtitle: Current and Future Perspectives
Editors: Aristotelis S. Gkiolmas, Constantine D. Skordoulis
Series Title: Critical Studies of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50609-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50608-7Published: 04 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50611-7Published: 05 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50609-4Published: 03 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2543-0467
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 173
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Curriculum Studies, Science Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction, Environmental and Sustainability Education