Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis: The Ecopedagogy Movement

by Richard Kahn

Book Overview

We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning catastrophe? Drawing upon a range of theoretical influences - including Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Herbert Marcuse, traditional ecological knowledge, and the cognitive praxis produced by today's grassroots activists in the alter-globalization, animal and earth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433105454
• ISBN13: 9781433105456
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"