Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling

Transdisciplinary Responses to the Polycrisis
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10881-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in the Anthropocene

This book argues that the root of education’s failure to address the complex problems of human-induced climate change lies in the stories we tell.

At once too complex, too simplistic, and overly focused on communicating and accumulating scientific facts, the stories we tell about climate change often reduce the problem to singular issues, such as CO2 emissions while advocating out-of-this-world technofixes. Against this challenge, the term 'polycrisis' has emerged to describe the interconnected environmental and social crises we are confronting in the 21st century. The polycrisis encompasses much more than catch-all terms such as climate change and global warming, connecting issues as diverse as biodiversity and habitat loss, water and food scarcity, pollution, and resource depletion, as well as growing economic and social precarity. Through a series of essays and interviews with scholars, scientists, artists and activists, this volume seeks to articulate existential and educational responses and interventions to the polycrisis. The author presents a terrestrial vision for critical eco-pedagogy, arguing that educational freedom in this time is not unlimited or unbounded, but rather cultivated through an engagement with limits and limitations – most fundamentally, the limits of a planet with limited resources and carrying capacity.

This timely volume will be of interest to researchers and teachers interested in environmental education, as well as posthumanism, decolonizing education, arts-based research methods, and postgrowth theory.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Cary

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Umweltethik, Umweltphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by William F. Pinar

Chapter 1. Introduction: reconceptualizing education in a time of unravelling

Part I: What’s happening? Turning towards the polycrisis

Chapter 2. Climate-change education, beyond the info-dump

Chapter 3. Attending to ‘Land as school’ & the ‘colonial resident question’

Chapter 4. The educational failure to address overshoot – an interview with William Rees

Chapter 5. The ontology of disaster, a conversation with Marion Benkaiouche

Part II: Why me? The challenge of subjectification in a time of polycrisis

Chapter 6. Anthropocene subjectification & the limits of emancipatory education – seeking shared animal pathways

Chapter 7. How to be here? three conversations with Tim Lilburn

Part III: What now? Pathways towards living well within limits

Chapter 8. Response-ability, along a way of life – doing-undergoing towards postgrowth futures

Chapter 9. Widening our circle of relations – a dialogue with Michael Ling

Chapter 10. What is sacred and what is sacrifice? A joint-dialogue with Zuzana Vasko, Charles Scott & Heesoon Bai

Chapter 11. Education and the problem of generations, an interview with Tim Ingold

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Cary Campbell is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and resides in Grandview Woodland, East Vancouver, where he was born and raised.