Countering post-truths through ecopedagogical literacies

Teaching to critically read ‘development’ and ‘sustainable development’

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ID8856258
AuthorsGreg William Misiaszek (0000-0003-2622-1656, Beijing Normal University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume52
Issue7
Pages747-758
Publication date2019-10-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131857.2019.1680362
OpenAlexW2981495537
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited37

A key aspect of teaching ‘development’ is understanding the conundrums and tensions between balance and imbalance with constructs of global (all humans, all societies, all populations) and planetary (all of Earth, including humans) spheres. This article deconstructs some key tenets of populist post-truth frameworks (termed as post-truthism in this article) as affecting how development and sustainability is taught within ecopedagogies and argues for structural grounding of ecopedagogical literacy within pedagogies as increasingly imperative. Rooted in critical theories and popular education movements in Latin America, through reinvention of Freirean Pedagogy, the literacy’s root word ecopedagogy is transformative teaching in which educators dialectically problem-pose the politics of socio-environmental connections through local, global, and planetary lenses. Without deepened and widened readings of development and sustainability viewed within both global and planetary spheres, in conjunction with development’s effects upon local societies and ecological systems, developmental actions are unsustainable and defies the definition of development. Discussed will be the ecopedagogical tenets, including emergent ecopedagogical literacies, of critical socio-historical analysis, local and diverse epistemologies, deconstruction of pedagogies on the environment, and problem-posing one’s and others’ livelihood to counter post-truthism

Critical literacy · Deconstruction (building · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Transformative learning · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Digital Education and Society · Ecology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Philosophy

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