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Sustainability education has typically centered the human-focusing on the changes and paradigm shifts needed to ensure a sustainable future for humans. Yet nonhuman beings, specifically plants and animals, are and have always been central to our lives, prompting wonder, curiosity, sensitivity and awe, as well as being important in their own right. In Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond: Teaching for a Sustainable Future the contributors discuss the importance of seeking a more inclusive, more just, and ultimately a more hopeful future. They consider how everyday, entanglements with plants and animals can challenge us and expand our worldview. The contributors consider the importance of reciprocal relationships with plants and animals and provide practical strategies, approaches, and examples of how that looks in practice in all types of educational settings.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Why Multispecies Thinking? Why Now? And How? by Patty Born

Part I: Perspectives

Chapter 1: Imagining Spaces of Hum(an)imality by Animalising Childhoods and Socialising Animalhoods by Tracy Charlotte Young
Chapter 2: Entangled Kitchens: Eating with the Trouble by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux
Chapter 3: Animals and the Gifts They Bring by Ruth Wilson

Part II: Practice

Chapter 4: Supporting Children’s Ecoliteracy and Multispecies Relations through Critical Literacy Practices: Using Environmental Literature in the Elementary Classroom by Maggie Struck and Patty Born
Chapter 5: Moments of Environmental Kinship: Learning in, with, about, and for the Whole of the Natural World by Sheila Williams Ridge and Megan Gessler
Chapter 6: Pathways to Better Relationships with Wildlife: Clarifying Concepts and Considering Possibilities by Bryan H. Nichols
Chapter 7: Taking the Long View: Applying Multispecies Awareness to Educational Observation by Patty Born

Part III: Examples from the Field

Chapter 8: Magical Moments and Spots of Sunshine: A Partnership to Support Multispecies Flourishing by Victoria Derr, Alice Miller, Madison Moreno, Kenton Parker, Juan Ramirez, and Cynthia Torres
Chapter 9: Life in the Garden by Sheila Williams Ridge
Chapter 10: Multispecies Entanglements in an Urban Park by Elizabeth Boileau

Index
About the Contributors

Product details

Published Feb 01 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 182
ISBN 9781666916669
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 24 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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