Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis: The Ecopedagogy Movement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781433105456)

We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning catastrophe? Drawing upon a range of theoretical influences - including Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Herbert Marcuse, traditional ecological knowledge, and the cognitive praxis produced by today's grassroots activists in the alter-globalization, animal and earth liberation, and other radical social movements - this book offers the foundations of a philosophy of ecopedagogy for the global north. In so doing, it poses challenges to today's dominant ecoliteracy paradigms and programs, such as education for sustainable development, while theorizing the needed reconstruction of critical pedagogy itself in light of our presently disastrous ecological conditions. Students and teachers of critical pedagogy at all levels, as well as those involved in environmental studies and various forms of sustainability education, will find this book a powerful provocation to adjust their thinking and practice to better align with those who seek to abolish forms of culture predicated upon planetary extermination and the domination of nature.

Author: Shirley R. Steinberg,Richard Kahn
ISBN-10: 1433105454
ISBN-13: 9781433105456
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2009
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/29/2010 pg. 15
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 214