Overview

This timely book situates environmental education within and against neoliberalism, the dominant economic, political, and cultural ideology impacting both education and the environment. Proponents of neoliberalism imagine and enact a world where the primary role of the state is to promote capital markets, and where citizens are defined as autonomous entrepreneurs who are to fulfill their needs via competition with, and surveillance of, others. These ideas interact with environmental issues in a number of ways and Neoliberalism and Environmental Education engages this interplay with chapters on how neoliberal ideas and actions shape environmental education in formal, informal and community contexts. International contributors consider these interactions in agriculture and gardening, state policy enactments, environmental science classrooms, ecoprisons, and in professional management and educational accountability programs. The collection invites readers to reexamine how economic policy and politics shape the cultural enactment of environmental education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

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Author:   Joseph Henderson (University of Delaware, USA) ,  David Hursh (University of Rochester, NY, USA) ,  David Greenwood (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780367075811

ISBN 10:   0367075814
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   18 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Environmental education in a neoliberal climate 1. Education policy mobility: reimagining sustainability in neoliberal times 2. Nature is a nice place to save but I wouldn’t want to live there: environmental education and the ecotourist gaze 3. Entrepreneurial endeavors: (re)producing neoliberalization through urban agriculture youth programming in Brooklyn, New York 4. Sustainability science and education in the neoliberal ecoprison 5. Refusing to settle for pigeons and parks: urban environmental education in the age of neoliberalism 6. Supporting youth to develop environmental citizenship within/against a neoliberal context 7. Negotiating managerialism: professional recognition and teachers of sustainable development education 8. Neoliberalism, new public management and the sustainable development agenda of higher education: history, contradictions and synergies 9. The promise and peril of the state in neoliberal times: implications for the critical environmental education movement in Brazil 10. Towards a political ecology of education: the educational politics of scale in southern Pará, Brazil 11. Against neoliberal pedagogies of plants and people: mapping actor networks of biocapital in learning gardens 12. Community organizing, schools, and the right to the city 13. The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end

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Joseph Henderson is a Research Scientist at the University of Delaware, USA. Trained as an anthropologist of environmental and science education, his research investigates how sociocultural, political, and economic factors influence teaching and learning in emerging energy and climate systems. David Hursh is a Professor at the Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, NY, USA. His research situates education policy and reform in the United States and globally within the context of a neoliberal social imaginary. David Greenwood is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair of Environmental Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship, teaching, and activism revolve around place-based, environmental, holistic, and sustainability education.

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