Curriculum, Environment, and the Work of C. A. Bowers

Audrey M. Dentith is Professor of Leadership Studies and Adult Education and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at North Carolina A&T State University, USA.David Flinders is Professor of Education at Indiana University, USA.John Lupinacci is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education at Washington State University, USA.Jennifer S. Thom is Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Mathematics Education at the University of Victoria, Canada.

• Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Curriculum and Environmental Scholarship of C.A. (Chet) BowersDavid J. FlindersPart I: Ecological Approaches to Curriculum DiscourseExcerpt for Part I from: Bowers, C. A. (1996). The cultural dimensions of ecological literacy. Journal of Environmental Education, 27(2).Chapter 2. Co/inspiriting Ecological Conversations with Chet A. Bowers (1935–2017) and Ted T. Aoki (1919–2012)Jennifer S. Thom Chapter 3. Reconceptualizing ‘Experience’ for the AnthropoceneKathleen KessonChapter 4. Beyond the Binary of Bowers Jeff EdmundsonChapter 5. Steps to an Ecology of Mindful Teaching in Friluftsliv (Outdoor Life) Education: Revisiting the Works of C.A. Bowers and Arne Naess for a Deep Ecocultural ApproachPer Ingvar HaukelandPart II: Curriculum of the CommonsExcerpt from: Bowers, C. (2016). Reforming higher education in an era of ecological crisis and growing digital insecurity. Anoka, MN: Process Century Press. Chapter 6. On Traditions and the Commons: A Material Feminist AnalysisAudrey M. DentithChapter 7. A Curriculum of the Commons: Learning in Detroit and Beyond Rebecca A. MartusewiczChapter 8. Lessons from a Pandemic: Can We Reclaim Our Cultural and Environmental Commons? Susan Huddleston EdgertonPart III: Eco-Justice CurriculumExcerpt for Part III from: Bowers, C. A. (2002). Toward an eco-justice pedagogy. Environmental Education Research, 8(1), 21-34.Chapter 9. Developing Ecological Literacy as a Habit of Mind in Teacher Education throughEcojustice Progressive CurriculaKelly YoungChapter 10. Coyote and Raven Encounter Chet Bowers in Conceptual Time-Space: Ecojustice Pedagogies of the LandPeter Cole and Pat O’RileyChapter 11. Developing Literacies through Place-based Poetic Inquiry: A Curriculum of Movement, Travel, and WritingAndrejs KulnieksChapter 12. Ecocritical Pedagogies: (Re)Imagining Education for Diversity, Democracy and Sustainability as Eco-Justice CurriculumJohnny Lupinacci

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