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Book SynopsisIn Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education, the editors share a collection of chapters from diverse critical scholars in teacher education. Teachers, and their students, are faced with demands that require teacher educators to work toward better preparing them to teach in a changed world—a world where diversity, human rights, sustainability, and democracy must be paramount. This text calls together teacher educators who address the complex ways that social and environmental injustices—like racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and speciesism—weave together to produce dangerous conditions for all life. The volume shares with readers a glimpse into alternatives possible for teaching that are situational, local, and in support of social justice and sustainability. Contributors are: Marissa E. Bellino, Melissa Bradford, Greer Burroughs, Nataly Chesky, Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Alison Happel-Parkins, Kevin Holohan, Agnes C. Krynski, John Lupinacci, Emilia Maertens, Rebecca Martusewicz, Emma McMain, Michio Okamura, Clayton Pierce, Meneka Repka, Graham B. Slater, Silvia Patricia Solís, JT Torres, Rita Turner, Robert G. Unzueta and Mark Wolfmeyer.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education: An Introduction John Lupinacci, Alison Happel-Parkins and Rita Turner 2 Learn Globally, Teach Locally: Developing an EcoJustice Stance among Preservice Teachers through a Critical Place-Based Pedagogical Model Marissa E. Bellino and Greer Burroughs 3 Classroom Ecologies That (Re)Claim a Democratic Commons: A Dialogic Inquiry into Creative Coexistence and Value Creation in Teacher Praxis Melissa Bradford and Michio Okamura 4 The Specter of Enclosure in School Gardens: An Ecocritical Pedagogy for the Educational Commons Graham B. Slater, Robert G. Unzueta and Clayton Pierce 5 Saberes Curativos and Jardines-Huertos Silvia Patricia Solís 6 For the Birds: The Pedagogical Value of Drawing on Relationship-Focused Nature Writing Agnes C. Krynski 7 Bringing the Social and Ecological into Teacher Education: Place-Conscious Teacher Education for Cultivating Community Well-Being Kevin J. Holohan 8 Anarchism, EcoJustice, and Earth Democracy: An Eco-Anarchic Social Studies for the 21st Century Brandon Edwards-Schuth and John Lupinacci 9 The Greening of STEM: Teaching Mathematics Pedagogy within an Ecojustice Framework Nataly Chesky and Mark Wolfmeyer 10 The Cost of Unsettling America: Math Education for EcoJustice Emilia Maertens and Rebecca Martusewicz 11 Pedagogical Misanthropy in mother! Decentering the Human in Ecocritical Education JT Torres, Emma McMain and John Lupinacci 12 “Educated by the Jungle”: How Vedda Wisdom Can Impact Ecocritical Pedagogy Meneka Repka 13 Afterword John Lupinacci, Alison Happel-Parkins and Rita Turner Index
