1st Edition

Environmental Liberation Education Diversity, Mindfulness, and Sustainability Tools for Teachers and Students

By Micaela Rubalcava Copyright 2025
370 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Environmental Liberation Education offers an easy-to-use, culturally responsive, and student-centered teaching approach to academic engagement and systemic change. It explains social-emotional tools and inquiry practices to discuss, reflect, and act for superdiverse student success, happiness, and global citizenship in a challenging, biodiverse world. The book presents three Transformative... Read more

Introduction  Part I: Big Picture Transformation in the Real World  1. Culture Conscious Listening and Global Praxis for Big Picture Change  2. Transformative Teachers Now  3. Bias, Antibias, and Culture Competence  4. Structural Competence for Teachers  Part II: Three Transformative Tools  5. Tool #1 – Diversity Circles   6. Tool #2 – Multicultural Mindfulness  7. Tool #3 – Approach-in-Dimension  Part III: Multicultural Mindfulness for a Sustainable World  8. Environmental Liberation Education

Biography

Micaela Rubalcava is Professor of Education at Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada, USA.

“This is a rigorous, thoughtful and comprehensive book. It offers educators, at every level of instruction and engagement, a clear and useful guide. This is an innovative contribution to classroom practice and pedagogical theory.”

Ron Scapp, Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education at College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York, USA.