Author : Janet McVittie
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ISBN 13 : 9781433191831
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (918 download)
Book Synopsis Decolonizing Environmental Education for Different Contexts and Nations by : Janet McVittie
Download or read book Decolonizing Environmental Education for Different Contexts and Nations written by Janet McVittie and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Dominant Western Worldviews (DWWs) proliferate through ongoing structures of globalization, neoliberalism, extractive capitalism, and colonialism, they inevitably marginalize those deemed as 'Other' (Indigenous, Black, Minority Ethnic, non-Western communities and non-human 'Others', including animals, plants, technologies, and energies). Environmental Education (EE) is well-positioned to trouble and minimize the harmful human impacts on social and ecological systems, yet the field is susceptible to how DWWs constrain and discipline what counts as viable knowledge, with a consequence of this being the loss of situated knowledges. To understand the relationships between DWW and situated knowledges and to thread an assemblage of ontological views that exist in unique contexts and nations, authors in this book take up decolonizing methodologies that expand across theories of Indigenous Knowledges (IK), Traditional Ecological Knowledges (TEK), two-eyed seeing, hybridity, and posthumanism. As EE opens to a myriad of different socio-cultural and material stories, there are more expansive opportunities for the field to attend to planetary social and ecological crises narratives through contingent, contextualized, meaningful, and relevant actions"--