1st Edition
Humour and Environmental Education
Introduction: Humour and environmental education
Constance Russell, Patrick Chandler and Justin Dillon
1. The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching
Annette Gough and Judy Horacek
2. Learning with student climate strikers’ humour: Towards critical affective climate justice literacies
Eve Mayes and Evan Center
3. “It was funny at first”: Exploring tensions in human-animal relations through internet memes with university students
Tuure Tammi and Pauliina Rautio
4. When students write comedy scripts: Humor as an experiential learning method in environmental education
Angelo Spörk, André Martinuzzi, Florian Findler and Heike Vogel-Pöschl
5. Is climate change a laughing matter?
Emma Carroll-Monteil
6. From The Fresh Prince to The Politician: Climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–2020
Katherine Carter
7. The cranky uncle game: Combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation
John Cook, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Melanie Trecek-King, Gunnar Schade, Karen Jeffers-Tracy, Jasper Fessmann, Sojung Claire Kim, David Kinkead, Margaret Orr, Emily Vraga, Kurt Roberts and Jay McDowell
8. Humor and humility for inclusive nature education
Juan Miguel Arias
9. I am not a camper: Confessions of an Indigenous urban environmental educator
Shannon Leddy
10. “A good hell”: Absurdist insights for environmental education and research
Greg Lowan-Trudeau
11. Irony and environmental education: On the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything
Stefan Bengtsson and Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard
Biography
Constance Russell is Professor in the Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Canada where she teaches courses in environmental education, animal-focused education, and food education. She was given the 2017 Outstanding Contributions to Research in Environmental Education award by the North American Association for Environmental Education.
Patrick Chandler is an education specialist for the Climate Literacy Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) and the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Colorado, USA. He has over fifteen years of experience working in, developing, and researching environmental education, art, stewardship, and science programs and is an expert on climate change and plastic pollution education .
Justin Dillon is professor of science and environmental education in University College London’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education. He taught in London schools for ten years before working at King’s College London, the University of Bristol, and the University of Exeter. Justin was President of the European Science Education Research Association from 2007 to 2011.
