Art, EcoJustice, and Education

Emphasizing the importance of contemporary art forms in EcoJustice Education, this book examines the interconnections between social justice and ecological well-being, and the role of art to enact change in destructive systems. This distinctive collection offers educators a mix of practical resources and inspiration.

"This book is an exciting international exploration of how EcoJustice Education can, and must, intersect with Art and Art Education in order to address the devastating ecological crises in which we find ourselves. This collection gives educators much-needed resources to begin to understand how we can use art to creatively intervene in the harmful assumptions and practices that are impacting humans and the more-than-human world." Alison Happel-Parkins, University of Memphis, USA "This book offers strong ecocritical perspectives that reframe dominant assumptions in Western industrial culture. This timely anthology pushes EcoJustice scholars and educators to thinkand feelbeyond the human-centered confines of the modernist assumptions constituting 'what is' and the possibilities of 'what ought to be' in regards to the role of art, and artistry, in re-imagining education." John Lupinacci, Washington State University, USA

Autorentext

Raisa Foster is an independent artist and scholar, and was the Research Director of the Art-Eco Project from 2015 to 2017 in Tampere, Finland.

Jussi Mäkelä is an artist and PhD candidate at the University of Tampere, Finland, and was a Researcher for the Art-Eco Project from 2015 to 2017 in Tampere, Finland.

Rebecca A. Martusewicz is Professor of Social Foundations in the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Contemporary Art as Critical, Revitalizing, and Imaginative Practice Toward Sustainable Communities 2. For the Most Important Parts of You: A Story About Science 3. Recognizing Mutuality: The More-Than-Human World and Me 4. The Experience of the Uncanny as a Challenge for Teaching Ecological Awareness 5. Letters from Love's Great Room: Fiction as Cultural Ecological Analysis and Pedagogy of Responsibility 6. Art Is That Which Takes Something Real and Makes It More Real Than It Was Before 7. Poetry and EcoJustice in a Kenyan Refugee Settlement 8. The Uncle Vanya Project: Performance, Landscape, and Time 9. For the Love of the Forest: Walking, Mapping, and Making Textile Art 10. Finding My Wound, Bandaging My Knife: Stimulating Inner Transformation through Art 11. Building Ecological Ontologies: EcoJustice Education Becoming with(in) Art-science Activisms 12. Apptivism, Farming, and EcoJustice Art Education 13. Creativity as Intrinsic Ecological Consciousness 14. Love in the Commons: Eros, Eco-Ethical Education, and a Poetics of Place