{"product_id":"educating-for-the-anthropocene-isbn-9780262544177","title":"Educating for the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe work of environmental educators and activists in India and South Africa offers new models for schooling and environmental activism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEducation has never played as critical a role in determining humanity’s future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind’s unprecedented control over the natural environment. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project among schools and activist groups in India and South Africa, Peter Sutoris explores education practices in the context of impoverished, marginal communities where environmental crises intersect with colonial and racist histories and unsustainable practices. He exposes the depoliticizing effects of schooling and examines cross-generational knowledge transfer within and beyond formal education. Finally, he calls for the bridging of schooling and environmental activism, to find answers to the global environmental crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe onset of the Anthropocene challenges the very definition of education and its fundamental goals, says Sutoris. Researchers must look outside conventional models and practices of education for inspiration if education is to live up to its responsibilities at this critical time. For decades, environmental activist movements in some countries have wrestled with questions of responsibility and action in the face of environmental destruction; they inhabited the mental world of the Anthropocene before much of the rest of the world. Sutoris highlights an innovative research methodology of participatory observational filmmaking, describing how films made by children in the Indian and South African communities provide a window into the ways that young people make sense of the future of the Anthropocene. It is through their capacity to imagine the world differently, Sutoris argues, that education can reinvent itself.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations xiii\u003cbr\u003ePart I Learning to Live in the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003eDilemma 1 The Shock of Recognition: (De)Politicizing Education 3\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Education's Task in the Anthropocene 7\u003cbr\u003e2 A Bittersweet Landscape 39\u003cbr\u003ePart II Schooling on the High Anthropocene's Frontier\u003cbr\u003eDilemma 2 Representing Liminality: Total Institution or Tough Love? 61\u003cbr\u003e3 The Origins of Depoliticization 67\u003cbr\u003e4 Reading the Cultural Landscapes of Schooling: Depoliticization and Hope 99\u003cbr\u003ePart III What is the Alternative? \u003cbr\u003eDilemma 3 The Myth of Impartiality, or How I (Almost) Became an Activist 147\u003cbr\u003e5 Environmental Activism: An Answer to Educating for the Anthropocene 151\u003cbr\u003e6 Toward a Different Anthropocene Politics 195\u003cbr\u003eNotes 211\u003cbr\u003eReferences 241\u003cbr\u003eIndex 271“This remarkable book shows schoolchildren and environmental activists working together to craft education as imaginative discovery while opening a conversation for tackling the global environmental crisis. A major accomplishment that speaks with passion and purpose.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eK. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A riveting account of grassroots environmental activism, providing inspiration, wisdom, and practical ideas for teaching and community action. This is a groundbreaking book that will be useful for educators, anthropologists, community organizers, and environmental justice advocates.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mitchell Thomashow, author of \u003ci\u003eTo Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePeter Sutoris is an environmental anthropologist, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Education at the University of York, and Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301066756325,"sku":"NP9780262544177","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544177.jpg?v=1767725879","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/educating-for-the-anthropocene-isbn-9780262544177","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}