
Environmental Liberation Education: Diversity, Mindfulness, and Sustainability Tools for Teachers and Students
Author(s): Micaela Rubalcava (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: August 19, 2024
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 356 pages
- ISBN-10: 1032428910
- ISBN-13: 9781032428918
Book Description
Environmental Liberation Education offers an easy-to-use, culturally responsive, and student-centered teaching approach to academic engagement and systemic change. It explains social-emotional tools and inquiry practices to discuss, reflect, and act for superdiverse student success, happiness, and global citizenship in a challenging, biodiverse world.
The book presents three Transformative Tools: Diversity Circles to organize, Multicultural Mindfulness to process, and Approach-in-Dimension to assess. The Tools show educators at all levels across disciplines how to reduce bias and make sustainability decisions daily. They empower teachers to develop peace for academic concentration in busy classrooms through a holistic understanding of body, mind, culture, and environment. The book offers a range of classroom-based and professional development exercises for critical consciousness, including mindfulness practices, transformative journal worksheets, cultural actions, and a self-survey to establish a baseline for hands-on diversity, well-being, and sustainability competencies.
Synthesizing multicultural and environmental education through mindfulness practices, Environmental Liberation Education is an invaluable resource for educators-in-training and practicing teachers.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is a rigorous, thoughtful and comprehensive book. It offers educators, at every level of instruction and engagement, a clear and useful guide. This is an innovative contribution to classroom practice and pedagogical theory.”
― Ron Scapp, Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education at College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York, USA.
About the Author
Micaela Rubalcava is Professor of Education at Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada, USA.
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