Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education: Meaningful Change in Educational Settings

Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education explores how personal, professional, and environmental identities support the implementation of ESE. It discusses key concepts and issues surrounding ESE and how teachers can claim agency and power to create change in their classroom practices. The use of personal narratives offers new insights into teachers' agency in creating localised yet powerful change through small and meaningful actions.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 188 pages
\n Publication date: 24 May 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education is a groundbreaking work that draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring the efforts of early career teachers to integrate Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) into their daily teaching practices. It showcases how a confluence of personal, professional, and environmental identities supports the implementation of ESE. Furthermore, this book delves into key concepts and issues surrounding ESE, providing teachers with the tools to claim agency and power in creating change within their classroom practices.

Drawing from theoretical perspectives such as Bourdieu's "thinking tools" of habitus and capital, theories of identity, and Foucault's concept of power and knowledge relations, this book explores how teachers navigate policies, curriculum, and institutional norms to further their theoretical and practical understanding of ESE. The use of personal narratives offers fresh insights into teachers' agency in driving localized yet impactful change through small and meaningful actions.

The primary purpose of this book is to explore the potential for meaningful change in educational settings through these small yet empowering steps taken by teachers. By empowering teachers to enact agency and navigate the power structures within educational settings, this book aims to provide a roadmap for making ESE meaningful and impactful in classrooms.

Through its comprehensive exploration of ESE, Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education offers valuable insights for educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in promoting sustainable practices and environmental education. It serves as a testament to the power of teachers as agents of change and provides a framework for building a more sustainable and equitable future.

\n Weight: 302g\n
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367370404\n \n