1st Edition
Curriculum, Environment, and the Work of C. A. Bowers Ecological and Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Curriculum and Environmental Scholarship of C.A. (Chet) Bowers
David J. Flinders
Part I: Ecological Approaches to Curriculum Discourse
Excerpt for Part I from: Bowers, C. A. (1996). The cultural dimensions of ecological literacy. Journal of Environmental Education, 27(2).
Chapter 2. Co/inspiriting Ecological Conversations with Chet A. Bowers (1935–2017) and Ted T. Aoki (1919–2012)
Jennifer S. Thom
Chapter 3. Reconceptualizing ‘Experience’ for the Anthropocene
Kathleen Kesson
Chapter 4. Beyond the Binary of Bowers
Jeff Edmundson
Chapter 5. Steps to an Ecology of Mindful Teaching in Friluftsliv (Outdoor Life) Education: Revisiting the Works of C.A. Bowers and Arne Naess for a Deep Ecocultural Approach
Per Ingvar Haukeland
Part II: Curriculum of the Commons
Excerpt from: Bowers, C. (2016). Reforming higher education in an era of ecological crisis and growing digital insecurity. Anoka, MN: Process Century Press.
Chapter 6. On Traditions and the Commons: A Material Feminist Analysis
Audrey M. Dentith
Chapter 7. A Curriculum of the Commons: Learning in Detroit and Beyond
Rebecca A. Martusewicz
Chapter 8. Lessons from a Pandemic: Can We Reclaim Our Cultural and Environmental Commons?
Susan Huddleston Edgerton
Part III: Eco-Justice Curriculum
Excerpt for Part III from: Bowers, C. A. (2002). Toward an eco-justice pedagogy. Environmental Education Research, 8(1), 21-34.
Chapter 9. Developing Ecological Literacy as a Habit of Mind in Teacher Education through
Ecojustice Progressive Curricula
Kelly Young
Chapter 10. Coyote and Raven Encounter Chet Bowers in Conceptual Time-Space: Ecojustice
Pedagogies of the Land
Peter Cole and Pat O’Riley
Chapter 11. Developing Literacies through Place-based Poetic Inquiry: A Curriculum of Movement, Travel, and Writing
Andrejs Kulnieks
Chapter 12. Ecocritical Pedagogies: (Re)Imagining Education for Diversity, Democracy
and Sustainability as Eco-Justice Curriculum
Johnny Lupinacci
Biography
Audrey M. Dentith is Professor of Leadership Studies and Adult Education and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at North Carolina A&T State University, USA.
David Flinders is Professor of Education at Indiana University, USA.
John Lupinacci is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education at Washington State University, USA.
Jennifer S. Thom is Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Mathematics Education at the University of Victoria, Canada.
