1st Edition

Ecopedagogy and the Global Environmental Citizen Critical Issues, Trends, Challenges and Possibilities

Edited By Greg William Misiaszek Copyright 2025
260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume collates over a decade of Greg William Misiaszek’s work on ecopedagogy, with a new focus on insights and possibilities for global citizenship education (GCE) scholarship. Rooted in critical theories and originating from Paulo Freire’s popular education models of Latin America, ecopedagogy is centered on understanding the struggles of, and the connections between, human acts of... Read more

Part 1: Introduction: Critically Teaching Development with Local-to-Planetary Citizenships  1. Ecopedagogy: Teaching Critical Literacies of  'Development,' 'Sustainability,' and 'Sustainable Development'  2. An Ecopedagogical, Ecolinguistical Reading of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): What We Have Learned from Paulo Freire  3. Environmental Education through Global and Local Lenses: Ecopedagogy and Globalizations in Appalachia, Argentina, and Brazil  Part 2: Introduction: Ecopedagogical Teaching and Literacy within Global Citizenship  4. Countering Post-Truths through Ecopedagogical Literacies: Teaching to Critically Read ‘Development’ and ‘Sustainable Development’  5. Six Critical Questions for Teaching Justice-Based Environmental Sustainability (JBES) in Higher Education  6. Ecopedagogical Literacy of a Pandemic: Teaching to Critically Read the Politics of COVID-19 with Environmental Issues  7. 'Hard spaces' of Global Citizenship Education: A Comparative Analysis through Ecopedagogical, Linguistic, and Feminist Lenses  8. Critically Countering Appropriations of Global Citizenship Education in the India Context: Hard, Gated, and Unmentionable  Part 3: Introduction: Non-anthropocentric Teaching with Local-To-Planetary Citizenship  9. Ecopedagogy: Freirean Teaching to Disrupt Socio-Environmental Injustices, Anthropocentric Dominance, and Unsustainability of the Anthropocene  10. De-Distancing ‘Us’ from the Rest of Earth: Ecopedagogical Analysis and Approaches  11. COVID-19 Foreshadowing Earth’s Environmental Tipping Point: Education’s Transformation Needed to Avoid the Ledge

Biography

Greg William Misiaszek is Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, China, and Associate Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA, USA.