Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems

The book studies the importance of adopting Green Academia as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against pandemics, emphasizing the merits of reinstating nature-based and environment-friendly pedagogical and curricular infrastructures in mainstream educational institutions. It explores possible ways of weaving ecology and the environment as a habitual practice of teaching and learning in an intersectional manner with Science and Technology Studies, with detailed case studies of green schools in Bhutan, India, Kenya, and New Zealand.

Format: Hardback
Length: 122 pages
Publication date: 23 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the critical importance of embracing Green Academia as a comprehensive and long-term countermeasure against the potential emergence of future pandemics, particularly in the post-COVID era and beyond. It argues that anti-nature and capitalistic knowledge systems have played a significant role in the global spread and evolution of COVID-19. Consequently, it emphasizes the need to reinstitute nature-based and environmentally friendly pedagogical and curricular infrastructures in mainstream educational institutions. Furthermore, the volume explores potential avenues for integrating ecology and the environment as a routine practice of teaching and learning, intersecting with Science and Technology Studies. Through detailed case studies of green schools in Bhutan, India, Kenya, and New Zealand, the book advocates for diverse forms of eco-friendly education systems and explores the feasibility of expanding these local practices on a global scale.

Published as part of the Academics,Politics and Society in the Post-COVID World series, this book is a vital resource for scholars and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, decolonial studies, education, ecology, public policy, social anthropology, sustainable development, sociology of education, and political sociology.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032126043