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Through School: Ecologising Schooling: A Tale of Two Educators

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Drawing on two auto-ethnographic narratives, this chapter ponders and considers the environmental education dimension of the socio-ecological educator’s role. Carol’s contribution provides examples of a socio-ecological approach that she has witnessed at a small, independent Canadian school. She begins with a brief summary of her own history and a short explanation of some of the multiple identities that have influenced her being, knowing and becoming as a socio-ecological educator. Amy’s contribution draws on her research and practice as a socio-ecological educator in a school-community context. The community that Amy teaches in is her classroom and in this chapter she draws on one specific example in teaching pre-service teachers to be, know and become socio-ecological educators. She begins with a brief summary of her own history and the various identities that influenced her development as a socio-ecological educator. The chapter is foregrounded by acknowledging that it is situated within our own theories and experiences as researchers, educators, environmentalists, parents and indeed as human beings/citizens. While we share our stories here, we do so as a pathway or guise for readers to ask their own questions about what environmental education is and in particular its’ positioning within the dynamic role of the socio-ecological educator.

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  1. School of Education, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

    Amy Cutter-Mackenzie

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

    Carol Fulton

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  1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

    Brian Wattchow

  2. Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

    Ruth Jeanes

  3. Monash University, Frankston, Australia

    Laura Alfrey

  4. Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

    Trent Brown

  5. Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

    Amy Cutter-Mackenzie

  6. Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

    Justen O'Connor

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Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Fulton, C. (2014). Through School: Ecologising Schooling: A Tale of Two Educators. In: Wattchow, B., Jeanes, R., Alfrey, L., Brown, T., Cutter-Mackenzie, A., O'Connor, J. (eds) The Socioecological Educator. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7167-3_9

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