1st Edition

Social Ecology and Education Transforming Worldviews and Practices

Edited By David Wright, Stuart B. Hill Copyright 2021
202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Social Ecology and Education addresses "ecological understanding" as a transformative educational issue: a learning response to emerging insights into social-ecological relationships and the future of life on our planet. In the face of the existential threats posed by climate change, loss of biodiversity, pandemids and the associated ecological and social challenges; there is a need to... Read more

Part 1: Transforming Learning

1. (Edge)ucation by Design

Ann Dale and Hilary Leighton

2. Teaching Social Ecology

David Wright

3. Transformative Learning Priorities

Stuart B. Hill

4. What was Education for? Learning in the Shadow of Climate Change

Isak Stoddard

5. Wild Pedagogies and the Promise of a Different Education: Challenges to Change

Bob Jickling and Sean Blenkinsop

Part 2: Transforming Practice

6.Community Education and Partnerships for Sustainable Development: A Way Forward for Indigenous Asia

Subarna Sivapalan and Ganakumaran Subramaniam

7. Leadership of the Future, for the Future: An Insight into a Unique Transformative Learning Program for Sustainability Capability

Kate Harris

8. The Gift of Presence in Groups: An Unfolding Story of Transformative Learning

Dale Hunter and Stephen J. Thorpe

9. Art, Imagination and the Environmental Movement

Rachael Jacobs and Christine Milne

Part 3: Learning Nature–Culture

10. Being Effective: Social Ecological Understanding in Action

Cathy McGowan (with David Wright)

11. Transformative Learning Through Maori Migration to Australia

Roseanna Henare-Solomona

12. Passionate Immersions in Nature: Cultures of the Everyday

Jen Dollin

13. Please Explain!

Brendon Stewart

14. Have You Ever Found a Gawuraa?

Christy Hartlage and Jo Clancy

15. Sustainability Work: An Urgent Need for a New Profession

Werner Sattmann-Frese Stuart B. Hill

Biography

David Wright is a senior lecturer in Education at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Stuart B. Hill is Foundation Chair of Social Ecology at Western Sydney University, Australia.

"The portfolio of essays is excellent, ranging widely, incorporating many different voices, stretching it seems (thankfully) beyond academia into the world of environmental practice, emphasizing the experience and first-hand accounts of the authors. I’m impressed, too, at the emphasis on personalizing educational experience, the developmental orientation, and the openness to multiple forms of learning. The essays challenge the reader to encounter some of the existential challenges that are inevitable in contemplating environmental issues. The authors are highly qualified, very experienced, and surely in Stuart Hill’s case, among the founders of academic environmental studies."

Mitchell Thomashow, leading author on education and environmental change and director of the Second Nature Presidential Fellows Program. Former president of Unity College and former Chair of Environmental Studies at Antioch University.