Introduction
Discussions concerning environment and pedagogy are typically located within fields related to environmental education (EE) and education for sustainability (EfS). These fields work across spheres of outdoor, experiential, and critical ecopedagogy as well as ecofeminist pedagogy, philosophy of education, and curriculum. They ultimately rely on philosophical positionings that relay various culturalist and materialist perspectives, reveal complex socio-political commitments, and occupy discourses that govern specific educational contexts.
Nevertheless, environmentally and culturally sensitive pedagogy is practiced within educational situations where ideals of plurality are also adapted to align with educational and societal metanarratives (typically patriarchal, neocolonial, capitalist). Thus, environment-related pedagogy freights various tensions and...
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Hart, P. (2017). Environment and Pedagogy. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_446
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