Maria Helena Saari
Biographic Data
| ID | 5136757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Helena Saari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Saari |
| SIGNATURE | SAARI M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4120-0311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Barriers and Enablers of Interdisciplinary Climate Education
Teachers are at the front line of climate change education (CCE), working to integrate its complex environmental, social and ethical dimensions into their classroom practice. Yet little is known about the barriers to and enablers of implementing interdisciplinarity within CCE. This study investigates Finnish secondary school teachers’ perspectives on interdisciplinary CCE, examining how their practices are shaped by access to resources, training …
Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education
Does sustainability really start with teachers? Reflections on integrating environmental education in pre-service teacher education in Namibia and Finland
In this paper, we explore some of the challenges and opportunities of integrating environmental education in pre-service teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arctic. Case examples from teacher education programs in Namibia and Finland set the scene for a critical analysis of environmental education in teacher training from these two distinct contexts. We begin with an overview of the current situation of environmental education in pre-…
Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches m…
Imagination switch – Friction and thick time in speculative worldmaking
The inability to respond to the environmental crises has been argued to stem from the crisis of imagination that underlies modernity. In response, the potentials of speculative approaches have been explored. This article presents a speculative worldmaking project conducted in a secondary school with young people. The project involved three consecutive phases, last of which is more closely examined. Next to the ideas and stories produced with youn…
Education for Total Liberation
Education for Total Liberation: Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching against Speciesism is a collection of articles showing how critical animal studies scholars have addressed animal liberation an
Education for Total Liberation
Education for Total Liberation: Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching against Speciesism is a collection of articles showing how critical animal studies scholars have addressed animal liberation an
Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches m…
Imagination switch – Friction and thick time in speculative worldmaking
The inability to respond to the environmental crises has been argued to stem from the crisis of imagination that underlies modernity. In response, the potentials of speculative approaches have been explored. This article presents a speculative worldmaking project conducted in a secondary school with young people. The project involved three consecutive phases, last of which is more closely examined. Next to the ideas and stories produced with youn…
Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education
Education for Total Liberation
Education for Total Liberation: Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching against Speciesism is a collection of articles showing how critical animal studies scholars have addressed animal liberation an
Does sustainability really start with teachers? Reflections on integrating environmental education in pre-service teacher education in Namibia and Finland
In this paper, we explore some of the challenges and opportunities of integrating environmental education in pre-service teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arctic. Case examples from teacher education programs in Namibia and Finland set the scene for a critical analysis of environmental education in teacher training from these two distinct contexts. We begin with an overview of the current situation of environmental education in pre-…
Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches m…
Imagination switch – Friction and thick time in speculative worldmaking
The inability to respond to the environmental crises has been argued to stem from the crisis of imagination that underlies modernity. In response, the potentials of speculative approaches have been explored. This article presents a speculative worldmaking project conducted in a secondary school with young people. The project involved three consecutive phases, last of which is more closely examined. Next to the ideas and stories produced with youn…
Barriers and Enablers of Interdisciplinary Climate Education
Teachers are at the front line of climate change education (CCE), working to integrate its complex environmental, social and ethical dimensions into their classroom practice. Yet little is known about the barriers to and enablers of implementing interdisciplinarity within CCE. This study investigates Finnish secondary school teachers’ perspectives on interdisciplinary CCE, examining how their practices are shaped by access to resources, training …
Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education
Pedagogy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental education (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works)