Teaching in the age of environmental emergencies

A “utopian” exploration of the experiences of teachers committed to environmental education in England

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ID21314149
AutoresHaira E Gandolfi (0000-0002-5789-0169, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume76
Fascículo7
Páginas1786-1806
Data de publicação2024-11-09
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-1911 • E-ISSN: 1465-3397
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131911.2022.2163378
OpenAlexW4317534804
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas37

This paper explores, grounded on life history interviews, the work of a set of fifteen teachers in England who self-identify as actively engaging with environmental issues and action at different school levels and across a wide range of subjects. One of the core aims of this paper was to construct, based on these teachers’ voices and experiences, a different vision for the future of environmental education in this age of environmental emergencies. Drawing on Levitas’ Utopia as a method framework – which proposes a concrete and systematic approach to creating alternative visions to systems that are deemed inadequate to flourishing –, this study then outlines participant teachers’ practices around teaching in an age of environmental emergencies, including supporting young people’s activisation and projects, cross-disciplinary and complexity-thinking, and pushing for long-term school-wide approaches. It also explores the significant professional and emotional labour that goes into supporting their students’ meaningful engagement with this area within the mainstream education sector, also providing us insight into what teaching in an age of environmental emergencies could look like

Environmental education · Medical education · Outdoor education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Medicine · Outdoor and Experiential Education · Psychology

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