Restorying Environmental Education
Chessa Adsit-Morris
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Description for Restorying Environmental Education
Hardback. Series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide. Num Pages: 151 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 12 colour illustrations, 13 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNAM; JNU; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 349.
This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a class of grade 4-6 students around the lost streams of Vancouver. The resulting work explores the contradictions gathered in relation to the Western educational system and the encounter with “Other” (real and imaginary others), including the shifting and growing “self,” and an attempt to find and foster nourishing alliances for transforming environmental education. Drawing on the work of new materialist theorists Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Karen Barad, Adsit-Morris considers the co-constitutive materiality of human corporeality and nonhuman natures and provides useful tools ... Read more
This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a class of grade 4-6 students around the lost streams of Vancouver. The resulting work explores the contradictions gathered in relation to the Western educational system and the encounter with “Other” (real and imaginary others), including the shifting and growing “self,” and an attempt to find and foster nourishing alliances for transforming environmental education. Drawing on the work of new materialist theorists Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Karen Barad, Adsit-Morris considers the co-constitutive materiality of human corporeality and nonhuman natures and provides useful tools ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
151
Condition
New
Series
Curriculum Studies Worldwide
Number of Pages
151
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319487953
SKU
V9783319487953
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About Chessa Adsit-Morris
Chessa Adsit-Morris is a curriculum theorist and member of the Center for Creative Ecologies. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
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