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Int Rev Educ (2016) 62:587607
DOI 10.1007/s11159-016-9587-0
ORIGINAL PAPER
Published online: 9 September 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning 2016
Abstract Emerging from popular education movements in Latin America, ecopedagogy is a critical environmental pedagogy which focuses on understanding the connections between social conict and environmentally harmful acts carried out by humans. These connections are often politically hidden in education. Ecopedagogy, while being pluralistic, is in its essence dened as a critical, transformative environmental pedagogy centred on increasing social and environmental justice. Its ultimate aim is to nd a sustainable balance between the conicting goals of diverse notions of human progress and environmental well-being. This article is based on two comparative research projects. The rst was a qualitative study on ecopedagogical models involving 31 expert ecopedagogues in Argentina, Brazil and the Appalachian region of the United States. They were asked for their perspectives on how successful ecopedagogy can be dened within the contexts in which they taught and conducted research. The second study analysed how 18 international expert scholars of citizenship and/or environmental pedagogy from six world continents regarded the ways in which citizenship intersects with environmental issues and the pedagogies of both in an increasingly globalised world, with specic focus on Global Citizenship Education. Results from the rst study indicate the following two needs for effective environmental pedagogies: (1) for there to be an ecopedagogical paradigm shift in environmental teaching and research; and (2) for ecopedagogy to be an essential element of citizenship education (and vice versa). This article examines how conicting processes of globalisation both help and hinder in achieving such a paradigm shift by decentring traditional nation-state citizenship. Results from the second study indicate how critical teaching within and between different spheres of citizenship
& Greg William Misiaszek [email protected]
1 Institute of Educational Theories, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing,
China
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(e.g. local, national, global, and planetary citizenship) is essential for ecopedagogy (and the ecopedagogical element).
Keywords Ecopedagogy Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) Global Citizenship Education (GCE) Globalisation
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