1st Edition

Education and Ecological Precarity Pedagogical, Curricular, and Conceptual Provocations

Edited By Fikile Nxumalo, Preeti Nayak, Eve Tuck Copyright 2027
164 Pages
by Routledge

Disrupting education-as-usual in the face of climate crisis, this edited collection brings together pedagogical, curricular and conceptual approaches that respond to ecological precarity, centring Indigenous knowledge systems and Black ecologies alongside interdisciplinary methods grounded in storytelling. The collection addresses the urgent need to shift educational practices to respond to the... Read more

1. Education and ecological precarity: Pedagogical, curricular, and conceptual provocations

Fikile Nxumalo, Preeti Nayak and Eve Tuck

 

2. “The seeds of a different world are already alive in the everyday practices of ordinary Black and Indigenous people”: An interview with J.T. Roane

J. T. Roane, Megan Femi-Cole, Preeti Nayak and Eve Tuck

 

3. Undoing human supremacy and white supremacy to transform relationships: An interview with Megan Bang and Ananda Marin

Megan Bang, Ananda Marin, Sandi Wemigwase, Preeti Nayak and Fikile Nxumalo

 

4. We want our children to survive: An interview with Sharon Nelson-Barber

Sharon Nelson-Barber, Diane Hill, Preeti Nayak and Fikile Nxumalo

 

5. Finding a good starting place: An interview with scholars in the CLEAR Lab

Maria Fernanda Yanchapaxi, Max Liboiron, Katherine Crocker, Deondre Smiles and Eve Tuck

 

6. Power of country: Indigenous relationality and reading Indigenous climate fiction in Australia

Sandra Phillips, Larissa McLean Davies and Sarah E. Truman

 

7.“Like you can tell a river where to go”: Floods, ecological formations, and storied pedagogies of place

Benjamin D. Scherrer

 

8. Disruptions at the edges: Ecotone crossing with Black and Indigenous creative pedagogues

Tamara T. Butler

 

9. Composting (in) the gender studies classroom: Growing feminisms for climate changing pedagogies

Astrida Neimanis and Laura McLauchlan

 

10. Climate justice pedagogies in green building curriculum

Miriam Solis, Will Davies and Abby Randall

Biography

Fikile Nxumalo is an Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. She is also honorary Professor Extraordinarious at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA).

Preeti Nayak is a postdoctoral scholar with the Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Change Education (MECCE) Project and a recent graduate from the Curriculum & Pedagogy program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Eve Tuck is James Weldon Johnson Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin, New York University. She is the founding Director of the Provostial Center for Indigenous Studies at NYU, called the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL).