Decolonizing Environmental Education for Different Contexts and Nations

Kathryn Riley obtained a Ph.D. from Deakin University, Australia, in 2019. Kathryn is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Janet McVittie obtained a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada in 1999. She is currently retired from a 23 year career teaching and researching in the departments of Curriculum Studies and Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Marcelo Gules Borges obtained a Ph.D. from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 2014. He is currently a Tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Teaching Methodology, School of Education, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

• List of Figures – Note from the Series Editors – Acknowledgments – Abbreviations – Janet McVittie: Decolonizing Environmental Education for Different Contexts and Nations – Zuzana Morog: A Global Assemblage – Vince Anderson: Integrating Social and Ecological Justice Inquiry – Sky McKenzie: Water Deep – Kathryn Riley: Mutually Entangled Futures in/for Environmental Education – Araceli Leon Torrijos: Ahora Adentro – Marcelo Gules Borges: Decolonial Pedagogy, Agroecology, and Environmental Education: Repositioning Science Education in Rural Teacher Education in Brazil – Alice Johnston: Taking Learning Outside – Kylie Clarke: Walking Gently … Through a Cultural Lens … – Roseann Kerr: Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Development – John B. Acharibasam: Decolonizing Environmental Education in Ghana – Elsa McKenzie: Earth Sorrow – Janet McVittie/Marcelo Gules Borges: Naturalized Places, Indigenous Epistemology, and Learning to Value – Ranjan Datta: Environmental Education through Indigenous Land-Based Learning – Julio Karpen: Escolas Marginalizadas e Educação Ambiental/Marginalized Schools and Environmental Education – Kai Orca: "From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea" – Epilogue – About the Authors – Index.

“About a decade ago, educators began to realize that Indigenous peoples traditionally live the gold standard of sustainability. It soon eclipsed the Eurocentric, three-pillar (economy, society, environment), hegemonic, sustainability agenda favoured by UNESCO. As Marie Battiste rationalized, ‘You can’t be the global doctor if you’re the colonial disease.’A decade later, we are gifted by a book that presents a diverse sustainability agenda aimed at ecological and social justice in environmental education (EE). Its diversity is secured by conveying experiences from eight countries (Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Brazil, Ghana, Jamaica, Mexico, and USA). Each animates important conceptual and methodological contributions to EE scholarship. Just as diversity breeds ecological strength in natural settings (aka Mother Earth), this book’s diversity offers a refreshingly strong array of knowledge and wisdom. It maps out an evolved agenda for sustainability in EE, which promises to eliminate the current Euro-American global transculturation—the ideology of colonialism. Megan Bang calls such an innovation a ‘move toward just, sustainable, and culturally thriving futures.’”—Glen Aikenhead, Emeritus Professor, Curriculum Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Canada