Freire and Environmentalism: Ecopedagogy

Building on Paulo Freire’s educational theory and the critical pedagogy movement, this book provides a short and accessible introduction to Freirean environmentalism and ecopedaogy. Ecopedagogy offers a political and educational vision that strives for a critical, culturally relevant forms of knowledge centred on sustainability, the future of the planet, and ending all forms of oppression. Using examples from around the globe, Misiaszek shows how different groups (gender, race, ethnicity) are affected in unbalanced ways by ongoing environmental destruction and argues that these systematic socio-environmental inequalities are ignored in much of environmental teaching. He argues that environmental justice is deeply connected to social justice and should be seen as part of wider debates around globalization, citizenship, ecoracism, ecofeminism, and neo/anti/colonialization. The book calls for global and local approaches to understanding socio-environmental issues beyond anthropocentric models. Written for anyone with an interest in education and the environment, this book offers new ways of thinking and teaching about the environmental crisis we are living through.