Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development

Amsler, Sarah; Kerr, Jeannie

Abstract

This new critical volume presents various perspectives on teaching and teacher education in the face of the global climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Teaching in the Anthropocene calls for a reorientation of the aims of teaching so that we might imagine multiple futures in which children, youths, and families can thrive amid a myriad of challenges related to the earth’s decreasing habitability.

Referring to the uncertainty of the time in which we live and teach, the term Anthropocene is used to acknowledge anthropogenic contributions to the climate crisis and to consider and reflect on the emotional responses to adverse climate events. The text begins with the editors’ discussion of this contested term and then moves on to make the case that we must decentre anthropocentric models in teacher education praxis.

The four thematic parts include chapters on the challenges to teacher education practice and praxis, affective dimensions of teaching in the face of the global crisis, relational pedagogies in the Anthropocene, and ways to ignite the empathic imaginations of tomorrow’s teachers. Together the authors discuss new theoretical eco-orientations and describe innovative pedagogies that create opportunities for students and teachers to live in greater harmony with the more-than-human world. This incredibly timely volume will be essential to pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators.

Citation

Amsler, S., & Kerr, J. (2022). Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development. In A. J. Farrell, C. Skyhar, & M. Lam (Eds.), Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis. Canada: Canadian Scholars Press

• Online Publication Date: Jul 30, 2022
• Publication Date: Jul 30, 2022
• Deposit Date: Sep 9, 2021
• Book Title: Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis
• ISBN: 9781773382821
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/6190685
• Related Public URLs: https://www.canadianscholars.ca/books/teaching-in-the-anthropocene
• Contract Date: Sep 9, 2021