Teaching environmental justice : practices to engage students and build community /

"This ground-breaking book explores ways to integrate environmental justice modules into courses across a wide variety of disciplines. Recommending accessible, flexible, and evidence-based pedagogical approaches designed by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, it centers equity and justice in...

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Other Authors: Jinnah, Sikina, 1977- (Editor), Dubreuil, Jessie Beall (Editor), Greene, Jody (Editor), Foster, Samara S. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2023.
Series:Elgar guides to teaching.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Education for transformation at the nexus of justice and the environment / Julian Agyeman
  • Part I: Projects for teaching environmental politics and justice
  • Protest music : using music to challenge (environmental) hegemony / Kemi Fuentes-George
  • Epochs of domination and liberation : expanding students' understanding of human-environment relationships in the service of environmental justice / David Pellow
  • Rethinking sustainable development practice : from intervention to reparation / Manisha Anantharaman and Jennifer L. Tucker
  • Climate justice : fostering student public engagement / Prakash Kashwan
  • Teaching perspective in an unequal world : negotiating climate change within the UN system / Kate OʼNeill and Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis
  • Should solar geoengineering be used to address climate change? : an ethics bowl-inspired approach / Sikina Jinnah and Juan Moreno-Cruz
  • Power in natural resource governance projects : power hierarchies in the negotiation of an international petroleum contract / Alero Akporiaye and D. G. Webster
  • Relationships, respect, and reciprocity : approaches to learning and teaching about Indigenous cultural burning and landscape stewardship / Beth Rose Middleton Manning
  • Harnessing humor for tough talks : humanitarian experiences addressing exclusion and climate risks / Pablo Suarez
  • Using contemplative practice to sustain equitable environmental engagement / Elizabeth Allison
  • The Global Environmental Justice Observatory : fostering students' knowledge production, professionalization and belonging / Ravi Rajan and Flora Lu
  • Part II: Reflections from Outside the Silo
  • Colonization of fire : why biophysical sciences must teach environmental justice / Crystal Kolden
  • How relational learning can disrupt the scientific cultural status quo : lessons from astronomy / Kathryne J. Daniel and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
  • Using socially engaged art to teach environmental and social justice / Chessa Adsit-Morris
  • Teaching feminist economics to challenge the hidden assumptions in economics / Juan Moreno-Cruz
  • Community-engaged research in the natural sciences : centering listening in the classroom / Kristy Kroeker
  • Teaching students how to get comfortable with the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing / Robin Dunkin
  • How online teaching and learning can support the public mission of research universities / Michael Tassio
  • Embodying social and environmental justice learning through somatic and mindfulness practices / Sapana Doshi and Tracey Osborne.