Ecopedagogies

This book showcases a range of creative approaches that educators across multiple disciplines use to empower students to access and engage with nature. As a practical guide, the book delivers a well-provisioned toolbox containing exercises, activity guides, and assignments for those teaching on environmentally-focused college courses.

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Ellen Bayer is an Associate Professor of Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA. Judson Byrd Finley is Associate Professor and head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Utah State University, USA.

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Ecopedagogies showcases a range of creative approaches that educators across multiple disciplines use to empower students to access and engage with nature, an increasingly important consideration in a post-Covid world in environmental crisis.

The volume includes chapters written by scholars from the environmental arts and humanities; literature; writing studies; rhetoric; music; religious studies; environmental studies and sustainability; sociology and anthropology; physical education; and outdoor education. Each author walks the reader through the details of how their ecopedagogy works; identifies potential challenges while also detailing how to address them; and explains the rewards to students, instructors, and nonhuman nature that they have witnessed through the use of these approaches. The contributions represent diverse types of academic institutions, offering broad applicability to instructors, including community colleges; private liberal arts colleges; and large state, regional, public, and private universities. The book explores a series of key questions about how educators can facilitate meaningful learning experiences with the natural world, inside and outside the classroom, and it looks at how to foster inclusivity, navigate problems with access, and explore intersections with environmental justice.

As a practical guide, the book delivers a well-provisioned toolbox containing exercises, activity guides, and assignments for those teaching on environmentally-focused college courses.

Contenu

1. Out of the Classroom and into the Wild: Ecopedagogies in Action Ellen Bayer and Judson Byrd Finley
   2. Composing with Infrastructures: Parapersonal Pedagogies for Environmental Humanities Classrooms Andrew Niess and Davy Knittle
   3. Field Journaling in the Wild: Defamiliarizing Everyday Environments in Environmental Humanities Courses Summer Harrison
   4. Go Boldly!: Empowering Students to Find their Stories in the Wild Ellen Bayer
   5. The World in a Pond: Multispecies Encounters and a Map for Confluent Classrooms Allison Lee Blyler and Holly Connell Schaaf
   6. Saunter like Muir: Eco-Challenges and Experience Projects in Introductory Environmental Ethics Amanda Hayden
   7. Decolonizing Outdoor Education: Reading Muir in Alaska and Fly Fishing on Lingít Aaní Kevin Maier
   8. Nature Revisited: Ecopedagogy in an English-Physical Education Learning Community Ian MacKenzie and Doug Smyth
   9. From Dinosaur to Bears Ears: Engaging Utah's Public Lands Via Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Experiential Learning Judson Byrd Finley and Keri Holt
   10. An Anthropology Field School as a Conduit of Connection Kelly M. Branam Macauley, Judson Byrd Finley, Hubert Burdick Two Leggins, Chris Finley, and Matt Rowe
   11. Learning to Think like a Factory Lachell Faure, Darren Paisley, and Brad Tabas
   12. Embodiment and More-Than-Human Topographies: A Praxis Tool for Reconfiguring Sense of Place in the Anthropocene in Online and Limited Residency Higher Education Mary A. Jackson
   13. Inhabiting Sounds: Soundscape Ecology in a First-Year Seminar Damiano Benvegnù
   14. Teaching Animal Texts: American Environmental Literature's Ability to Connect Students to Animals and Wildlife through Observation Lauren E. Perry
   15. To the Zoo! Jeremy Chow
   16. Paradox of Hope: Cultivating a Restorative Educational Ethic in a World on Fire Levi Gardner