Overview
This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education. While both fields are often connected through disciplinary dialogues, climate change prompts a greater need to unite artists and educators around common environmental problems and goals. By staging transcritical engagements, this book draws out common and uncommon disciplinary perspectives that can generate new ways of thinking, living, and doing in the Anthropocene. Ideas around courage, resilience, life, and death emerge. An expression of active, non-violent resistance to the ongoing destruction of our planet, this book supports imaginative action, popular sovereignty, and the courage to live well within the challenges of our era. Engaging artists’ and educators’ questions, it maps significant differences and potential intersections for further enquiry. Events of Art and Education in Post-climate Times will be helpful for students studying art, education, environment, sustainability, and climate change. It will also interest researchers, practising artists, and teachers in these disciplines by being at the forefront of current discussions in both fields.
Full Product Details
Author: Carl Anders Säfström ,
Glenn Loughran
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781032598659
ISBN 10: 1032598654
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 18 July 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
""This edited volume, drawing on subjects such as philosophy, art history, and pedagogy, makes an extraordinarily original and significant contribution to our understanding of the current post-climate era. By reimagining sustainability and addressing the troubling future of rising global temperatures and social injustice, it explores the intersection of art, education, and philosophy across all chapters. This fusion inspires creativity, not only in the world at large but also in how universities can foster a hopeful and inclusive community, nurturing a future rooted in belonging and shared purpose."" Peter Dobers, Professor, School of Scienecs, University, Sweden ""Säfström and Loughran reveal a world which we are invited to navigate with even more freedom than we can muster. They do so through the diverse spheres of a sophistic(al) heterodoxy—indeed what they call a 'patchwork ontology', which allows us to move beyond the strictures that have become the mainstay of our current polity. Being in the world anew is what, one hopes, would allow us to survive the destructive legalities by which human agency became a reified mirage. This is a fascinating book which does not simply challenge our certainties, but confirms, yet again, that the only way to make sense of and prevail in such a world, is to embrace form’s pedagogical possibilities."" John Baldacchino, Professor of Art and Education, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA ""An extraordinarily fine collection of authors carry the world events of pedagogy into the realm of thinking otherwise to invite the risk of beauty in our time of ecological crisis. Each chapter is a gem of engagement and provides a treasure trove of educational experiments crafted from the ethics of thinking again. On o?er is a new vocabulary as openings to imagination, hospitality, and involvement, with the request to analyze one’s own situation within the learning world of others. With the medium for philosophical thought and pedagogical responsiveness, readers enter movements of wonder with fresh thinking, surprising metaphors, and views of life that welcome the coming education."" Deborah P. Britzman, author of When History Returns: Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning
Author Information
Carl Anders Säfström is a professor of educational research and director of the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland, as well as a Zen Meditation practitioner and an aspiring poet. His research currently focuses on the tradition of education as a practice established by the Sophists, a critique of the Platonian-Aristotelian orthodoxy dominating educational thought, and the violence, systemic as well as symbolic, following in education from such orthodoxy. Glenn Loughran is an artist and educator at the Technological University Dublin. He is co-founder and programme director of the archipelagic MA in Art and Environment, set up in 2020, and delivered across the Islands of West Cork. His research focuses on artistic research, socially engaged art, critical pedagogy, and island studies. He is a member of the Working Group on Artistic Research at the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA).
