Art, EcoJustice, and Education

Art, EcoJustice, and Education
Author: Raisa Foster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351743112

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Emphasizing the importance of contemporary art forms in EcoJustice Education, this book examines the interconnections between social justice and ecological well-being, and the role of art to enact change in destructive systems. Artists, educators, and scholars in diverse disciplines from around the world explore the power of art to disrupt ways of thinking that are taken for granted and dominate modern discourses, including approaches to education. The EcoJustice framework presented in this book identifies three strands—cultural ecological analysis, revitalizing the commons, and enacting imagination—that help students to recognize the value in diverse ways of knowing and being, reflect on their own assumptions, and develop their critical analytic powers in relation to important problems. This distinctive collection offers educators a mix of practical resources and inspiration to expand their pedagogical practices. A Companion Website includes interactive artworks, supplemental resources, and guiding questions for students and instructors.

Art Education for a Sustainable Planet

Art Education for a Sustainable Planet
Author: Joy G. Bertling
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2023
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807781401

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Explore how art education can contribute to a more just and sustainable planet. Making the case that ecopedagogy and eco-art can transform and enrich art education, Bertling introduces these two burgeoning movements and then outlines how they can be infused into K–12 art education. Seven innovative curricular strands are presented to help art teachers embrace natural cycles and processes, envision alternative states and ways of being, restore ecosystems, and empower communities. These strands weave together specific contemporary eco-artworks, cultural and environmental philosophies, and art education methods. Reflective questions, innovative curriculum frameworks, and other resources are provided to support teachers in enacting these inspiring curricular ideas for better social and ecological futures. Curricular themes include attentiveness, relationality, co-creation, consumption, progress, cultural desire, identity stories, restoration, and coalitions. This accessible, full-color text is the first of its kind to provide practical guidance and concrete strategies for educators interested in enacting ecological art instruction. Book Features: A foundational resource for using art education to foster environmental health and ecological integrity. Guidance for developing art curriculum to meet different ecopedagogical goals.Many color images of contemporary eco-artworks.Curriculum framework tables and reflective questions at the end of each chapter. A comprehensive glossary and list of contemporary eco-artists and their websites.

EcoJustice Education

EcoJustice Education
Author: Rebecca A. Martusewicz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317699645

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EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. Readers are asked to consider curricular strategies to bring these issues to life in their own classrooms across disciplines. Designed for introductory educational foundations and multicultural education courses, the text is written in a narrative, conversational style grounded in place and experience, but also pushes students to examine the larger ideological, social, historical, and political contexts of the crises humans and the planet we inhabit are facing. Pedagogical features in each chapter include a Conceptual Toolbox, activities accompanying the theoretical content, examples of lessons and teacher reflections, and suggested readings, films, and links. The Second Edition features a new chapter on Anthropocentrism; new material on Heterosexism; updated statistics and examples throughout; new and updated Companion Website content.

Eco-Art Education

Eco-Art Education
Author: Rebecca Gilmartin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

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This research project was based on a desire to examine connections between environmental literacy, sustainability, and art education. My research explored current ecological art education methodologies, sustainable classroom practices, and art making promoting ecological stewardship. Based on action-oriented research, I discovered that effectively introducing environmental education in the art classroom practice requires thoughtful consideration in how it is implemented. Based on my findings, I created an online website resource (http://rebeccagilmartin.com/green-art-room-) that promotes Eco-art education, categorized into Eco literacy, Sustainable Classroom Practices, Projects, Artists, and Resource Links. This curriculum resource is housed in my personal website at rebeccagilmartin.com.

Cultural Studies and Environmentalism

Cultural Studies and Environmentalism
Author: Deborah J. Tippins
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2010-08-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9048139295

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As the first book to explore the confluence of three emerging yet critical fields of study, this work sets an exacting standard. The editors’ aim was to produce the most authoritative guide for ecojustice, place-based education, and indigenous knowledge in education. Aimed at a wide audience that includes, but is not restricted to, science educators and policymakers, Cultural Studies and Environmentalism starts from the premise that schooling is a small part of the larger educational domain in which we live and learn. Informed by this overarching notion, the book opens up ways in which home-grown talents, narratives, and knowledge can be developed, and eco-region awareness and global relationships can be facilitated. Incorporating a diversity of perspectives that include photography, poetry and visual art, the work provides a nuanced lens for evaluating educational problems and community conditions while protecting and conserving the most threatened and vulnerable narratives. Editors and contributors share the view that the impending loss of these narratives should be discussed much more widely than is currently the case, and that both teachers and children can take on some of the responsibility for their preservation. The relevance of ecojustice to this process is clear. Ecojustice philosophy is a way of learning about how we frame, or perceive, the world around us—and why that matters. Although it is not synonymous with social or environmental justice, the priorities of ecojustice span the globe in the same way. It incorporates a deep recognition of the appropriateness and significance of learning from place-based experiences and indigenous knowledge systems rather than depending on some urgent “ecological crises” to advocate for school and societal change. With a multiplicity of diverse voices coming together to explore its key themes, this book is an important starting point for educators in many arenas. It brings into better focus a vital role for the Earth’s ecosystems in the context of ecosociocultural theory and participatory democracy alike. “Encompassing theoretical, empirical, and experiential standpoints concerning place-based knowledge systems, this unique book argues for a transformation of (science) education’s intellectual tradition of thinking that emphasizes individual cognition. In its place, the book offers a wisdom tradition of thinking, living, and being that emphasizes community survival in harmony within itself and with Mother Earth.” Glen Aikenhead

Eco-art Education

Eco-art Education
Author: Annette Saldana
Publisher:
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

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This capstone project examines the links between arts education and ecology. It explores the interconnections between visual arts and the environment to inspire curriculum design. Extensive research was examined as I explored the theme of eco-art and its place in and outside the classroom. A review of scholarly articles, magazines, books, newspapers, journals, and films led me to the discovery that art and ecology can be combined in order to create meaningful learning experiences that investigate the purposes of sustainability, identity, and social interaction. By implementing and documenting the process of eco-art making and participatory based art projects, I encouraged students to participate in activities that contributed to the betterment of local environments. The findings and data that I compiled throughout my study were used as a means to explore meaningful, relevant, and transformative eco-art education within the classroom and local community. I applied action research to my study so that I might further examine the implementation of an eco-art education curriculum. My observations involved advanced high school art students, local ecologists, and various members within the school community. I was able to compile data as I read and analyzed journal entries, drawings, notes, and survey/interview questions produced by students. I investigated the ways my students and community interacted and devised projects that encouraged reformation, teamwork, and environmental stewardship. My overall goal was to create a positive learning experience that would lead my students to become more conscious of interdependence, within both natural and social environments, through visual art education that focuses on ecological issues.

Eco-Mathematics Education

Eco-Mathematics Education
Author: Nataly Chesky
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2021-10-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004466800

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Eco-Mathematics Education strives to show how everyone can experience the embedded connection between mathematics and the natural world. The authors’ sincere hope is that by doing so, we can radically change the way we come to understand mathematics, as well as humanity’s place in the ecosystem. The book hopes to accomplish this by providing in-depth lesson plans and resources for educators and anyone interested in teaching and learning mathematics through an ecological aesthetic perspective. All lessons are based on the inquiry method of teaching, aligned to standards, incorporate art projects inspired by famous artists, and utilize recycled and/or natural materials as much as possible.

Arts, Sustainability and Education

Arts, Sustainability and Education
Author: Ernst Wagner
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811634521

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This book explores the potential of arts and cultural education to contribute to on-going efforts to promote Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in line with UNESCO’s conceptualizations of the field. It builds on the experiences of arts educators working to build sustainable futures and portrays new and innovative approaches. Chapters comprise case studies that combine arts, culture, sustainable thinking and practices. They also include research from historical perspectives, evaluations of public policy measures and offer theoretical approaches and methodologies. The book unfolds the possible relationships between arts and cultural education and Education for Sustainable Development.

Art Education for a Sustainable Planet

Art Education for a Sustainable Planet
Author: Joy G. Bertling
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2023
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0807767700

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"This full-color book provides practical guidance and concrete strategies for educators interested in enacting ecological art instruction in the K-12 classroom. Curricular themes include attentiveness, relationality, co-creation, consumption, progress, cultural desire, identity stories, restoration, and coalitions. The text includes many images of contemporary eco-artworks, curriculum framework tables, and reflective questions"--

EcoJustice Education

EcoJustice Education
Author: Rebecca A. Martusewicz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429670761

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The third edition of this groundbreaking text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility. Authors Martusewicz, Edmundson, and Lupinacci provide teachers, teacher educators, and educational scholars with the theory and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. Readers are asked to consider curricular strategies to bring these issues to life in their own classrooms across disciplines. Designed for introductory educational foundations and multicultural education courses, EcoJustice Education is written in a narrative, conversational style grounded in place and experience, but also pushes students to examine the larger ideological, social, historical, and political contexts of the crises humans and the planet we inhabit are facing. Fully updated with cutting-edge research, statistics, and current events throughout, the third edition addresses important topics such as Indigenous learning, Black Lives Matter, the Flint Water Crisis, Standing Rock, the rise of fascism, and climate change, and develops EcoJustice approaches to confronting these issues. An accompanying online resource includes a conceptual toolbox, links to related resources, and more.