Environmental education : : identity, politics and citizenship / / edited by Edgar González-Gaudiano, Michael A. Peters.

• Superior document: Contexts of Education ; 2
• TeilnehmendeR: González Gaudiano, Édgar,; Peters, Michael, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Contexts of Education ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In Environmental Education: Identity, Politics and Citizenship the editors endeavor to present views of environmental educators that focus on issues of identity and subjectivity, and how 'narrated lives’ relate to questions of learning, education, politics, justice, and citizenship. What is distinctive about this collection is that it highlights the views of Latin American scholars alongside those of scholars from Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, and U. S. The result is a philosophically nuanced reading of the complexities of environmental education that begins to reshape the landscape in terms of ethics, ontology, epistemology, and politics. The collection bears the stamp of the location of its contributors and strongly reflects an activist, qualitative, and ethnographic orientation that emphasizes the ground for action, the identity of environmental actors, and the contribution that education in all its forms can make to sustainability and the cause of the environment. At the same time, contributors go beyond simple slogans and ideologies to question the accepted truths of this rapidly emerging field. Cover picture: Edgar González-Gaudiano: Siem Reap, Cambodia, December 2007.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Edgar González-Gaudiano and Michael A. Peters -- Introduction / Michael A. Peters and Edgar González-Gaudiano -- Solar ethics: A new paradigm for environmental ethics? / Michael A. Peters and Ruyu Hung -- Ontological/epistemological pluralism within complex contested EE/ESD landscapes: Beyond politics and mirrors / Paul Hart -- Narrated lives: Contributions from an interpretative perspective for understanding the formation of an ecological self / Isabel Cristina de Moura Carvalho -- What does environmentally educated citizenship mean? / Edgar González-Gaudiano -- Should environmental education trust politics more than science? / Guillermo Foladori -- Ecojustice learning / Alberto Arenas -- Formation and identity of environmental educators / Adilson Januário da Silva and Marcos Reigota -- Environmental educational research in Latin America and the Caribbean / Alicia de Alba -- Qualitative environmental research, a look at the sustainability world: advances, opportunities and alternative indicators systems / José Gutiérrez Pérez -- Toward a new environmental contract in education / Jorge Rivas Diaz -- Globalization, resistance and resilience: Issues for environmental education / Lucie Sauvé -- The educational-recreational use of protected areas as a means of sustainability / María Muñoz and Javier Benayas -- ‘After Neoliberalism’: Environmental education to education for sustainability / Ruth Irwin -- What’s in a name? Environmental education and Education for sustainable development as slogans / Coral Campbell and Ian Robottom -- Towards a language of probability for sustainability education in (South) Africa / Lesley Le Grange -- Popular education and environmental education in Latin America: Converging paths and aspirations / Haydée Torres de Oliveira -- Cochabamba and Colorado Conjoined: place-based education for a global perspective of environmental issues / Nicole Lamers -- The combination of environmental education and sustainable development for community programs: a case study by IPÊ in Brazil / Suzana Machado Padua -- Notes on Contributors / Edgar González-Gaudiano and Michael A. Peters.