Format/Structure

Each 90 min session will be filled with up to four papers for presentation and discussion.

Long Abstract

Since 2015, education institutions all over the world have experienced a new wave of attention to sustainable development, environmental degradation, and global warming. In the same period, a promising sub-field of political ecology of education has been established, following Meek (2015), and Meek and Lloro-Bidart (2017). However, so far political ecology perspectives seem hardly at all to have reached either teacher education programs or been reflected in primary or secondary schools. Political ecology is also poorly reflected in the growing body of academic literature on education about sustainable development and related issues. Thus, new generations of youth seem to continue to learn mainstream narratives at school that political ecology research often has revealed to be misleading and problematic.

For this panel, we welcome papers with – but not restricted to - any of the following contents:

• Critical examinations of cases of curricula, teaching contents or classroom approaches in comparison with insights from political ecology;

• Critical examinations of contents of the academic literature on education on sustainable development, the environment, or global warming in comparison to relevant research findings and approaches within political ecology;

• Ways of elaborating and/or introducing elements of political ecology of education so that it is reflected at teacher education, at school, or in other educational contexts;

• Presentations of experimental studies of teaching practices based on political ecology of education;

• Discussions of how to increase recruitment of political ecologists for positions at teacher education institutes at colleges and universities.

References

Meek, D. 2015. Towards a political ecology of education: the educational politics of scale in southern Pará, Brazil. Environmental education research, 21(3), 447-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2014.993932

Meek, D., and Lloro-Bidart, T. 2017. Introduction: Synthesizing a political ecology of education. The Journal of Environmental Education, 48(4), 213-225.https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2017.1340054

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