EcoJustice Education ─ Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities

EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. Readers are asked to consider curricular strategies to bring these issues to life in their own classrooms across disciplines. Designed for introductory educational foundations and multicultural education courses, the text is written in a narrative, conversational style grounded in place and experience, but also pushes students to examine the larger ideological, social, historical, and political contexts of the crises humans and the planet we inhabit are facing.

Pedagogical features in each chapter include a Conceptual Toolbox, activities accompanying the theoretical content, examples of lessons and teacher reflections, and suggested readings, films, and links. The Second Edition features a new chapter on Anthropocentrism; new material on disability within the chapters on anthropocentrism, gender, race and class; new material on Heterosexism; updated statistics and examples; updated Companion Website content.

Rebecca A. Martusewicz is a teacher educator at Eastern Michigan University, where she developed a concentration in EcoJustice Education for the Masters in Social Foundations program.

Jeff Edmundson directs the teacher licensure program at the University of Oregon and teaches courses in EcoJustice at the undergraduate and graduate level.

John Lupinacci is Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Cultural Studies & Social Thought in Education, Washington State University, and a community activist.