Environmental adult education

About this book

"This volume of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education situates environmental adult education in a sociopolitical and eco-epistemological framework, explores how new language and metaphors can counteract problematic modern world-views, and analyzes the potential of environmental, justice-based learning to combat socioenvironmental oppressions." "Environmental adult education for community sustainability situates local knowledge in a global pedagogy and activism of survival. Practical and theoretical considerations of environmental popular education in indigenous people's social movements are explained in the context of one example, and the relationship between women, the environment, and adult learning is explored. The aim of environmental adult literacy is to challenge scientific knowledge as the fundamental structure of learning and to revalue people's experiential knowledge. A transformative ecological understanding of lifelong learning reconnects humans with nature and fosters social dialogue and action. Environmental adult education provides a rich and provocative discourse, and this sourcebook will be useful to readers seeking to connect social and ecological issues in their educational work in community, classroom, or social movements."--Jacket.