Copy the page URI to the clipboard
Humphreys, David
(2019).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/CGP/v15i01/53-70
Abstract
This article presents some examples of teaching on environmental studies from recent Open University modules that encourage students to evaluate their role in responding to what should be seen as the greatest public welfare challenge of our age; global environmental degradation. This calls for a public education endeavour in its broadest sense, one involving not just the academy and students but the global public. Some universities in the UK have recognized that there is a now a climate emergency, raising the prospect of substantive changes to education governance, research and curriculum. Ecopedagogy offers the prospect of a new curriculum, a radical approach to education that resists the political and economic structures that generate environmental problems while working with social movements to generate an alternative environmental politics. It challenges those engaged in environmental education to rethink how they teach agency to students and what the role of the educator should be in equipping society to respond to environmental degradation. The article concludes that the recognition of a climate emergency suggests that universities should shift towards a more proactive ecopedagogical role as a matter of urgency.
Viewing alternatives
Download history
Metrics
Public Attention
Altmetrics from AltmetricNumber of Citations
Citations from DimensionsItem Actions
Export
About
- Item ORO ID
- 68561
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1832-2077
- Project Funding Details
-
Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body National Teaching Fellowship grant Not Set Advance HE - Keywords
- Agency; Climate Emergency; Curriculum; Ecopedagogy; Environmental Education
- Academic Unit or School
-
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2019 Common Ground Research Networks, © 2019 The Author
- Depositing User
- David Humphreys