Breathing Life into Learning: Ecocultural Pedagogy and the Inside-Out Classroom (original) (raw)

Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice , 2017

Abstract

https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-Communication-Pedagogy-and-Practice/Milstein-Pileggi-Morgan/p/book/9781138393509 Intro paragraph: 'As teachers in the relatively new, but increasingly in-demand field of environmental communication, we often find ourselves introducing first-time courses to our departments, programs, and organizations. This chapter argues that, as we design courses, we also have the related opportunity and connected imperative to turn conventional learning inside-out. Indeed, this book as a whole provides a crucial moment to reflect on ways many environmental communication teachers are doing just that and a moment to further refine these practices. In this chapter, we elucidate an inside-out classroom model (Milstein 2015) for teaching environmental communication, as well as environmental studies and the many related fields of learning. The model takes up Cox’s (2007) ethical duty of environmental communication within the realm of pedagogy, teaching learners about our current global anthropogenic ecological systemic crisis from a communication standpoint while empowering them to be ecocultural change agents. The goal with such an approach is to create transformative learning spaces in which learners’ inner concerns and passions find vital connection with their understandings of, and practices within, the wider biosphere.'

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