Neoliberalism and Environmental Education

Joseph Henderson is a Research Scientist at the University of Delaware, USA. Trained as an anthropologist of environmental and science education, his research investigates how sociocultural, political, and economic factors influence teaching and learning in emerging energy and climate systems. David Hursh is a Professor at the Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, NY, USA. His research situates education policy and reform in the United States and globally within the context of a neoliberal social imaginary.David Greenwood is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair of Environmental Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship, teaching, and activism revolve around place-based, environmental, holistic, and sustainability education.

• Preface Introduction: Environmental education in a neoliberal climate 1. Education policy mobility: reimagining sustainability in neoliberal times 2. Nature is a nice place to save but I wouldn’t want to live there: environmental education and the ecotourist gaze 3. Entrepreneurial endeavors: (re)producing neoliberalization through urban agriculture youth programming in Brooklyn, New York 4. Sustainability science and education in the neoliberal ecoprison 5. Refusing to settle for pigeons and parks: urban environmental education in the age of neoliberalism 6. Supporting youth to develop environmental citizenship within/against a neoliberal context 7. Negotiating managerialism: professional recognition and teachers of sustainable development education 8. Neoliberalism, new public management and the sustainable development agenda of higher education: history, contradictions and synergies 9. The promise and peril of the state in neoliberal times: implications for the critical environmental education movement in Brazil 10. Towards a political ecology of education: the educational politics of scale in southern Pará, Brazil 11. Against neoliberal pedagogies of plants and people: mapping actor networks of biocapital in learning gardens 12. Community organizing, schools, and the right to the city 13. The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end