Christian Konadu Asante, Edward Yalley, Gideon Amissah
{"title":"Climate Change Education, Globalisation and the Nation State: A Commentary on Ghana’s Science Curriculum","authors":"Christian Konadu Asante, Edward Yalley, Gideon Amissah","doi":"10.1017/aee.2024.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.2","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we offer a commentary on the climate change content in Ghana’s primary and junior high school science curriculum. Since 2019, the government of Ghana has mandated climate change education at multiple levels of the school system. However, there is very little analysis of these curricula. This paper fills an important gap by critically reviewing the climate change content in the science curriculum in a country with a complex and tenuous past regarding capitalist and colonialist expansion and exploitation. We note that while the curriculum attends to technical details of greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts, it elides the larger global context that has led to the rise in carbon emissions and anthropogenic climate change. We make the case for a climate change curriculum that integrates culture, language and histories, and tackles the complexities of globalisation.","PeriodicalId":44842,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Environmental Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of ‘Learning to Confront Ecological Precarity: Engaging with More-Than-Human Worlds’ - S. Jukes (2023). Learning to confront ecological precarity: Engaging with more-than-human worlds. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.","authors":"Kathryn Riley","doi":"10.1017/aee.2024.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44842,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Environmental Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of ‘Learning to Confront Ecological Precarity: Engaging with More-Than-Human Worlds’ - S. Jukes (2023). Learning to confront ecological precarity: Engaging with more-than-human worlds. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.","authors":"Kathryn Riley","doi":"10.1017/aee.2024.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44842,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Environmental Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139841031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses","authors":"Helen Kopnina, Timothy Bedford","doi":"10.1017/aee.2023.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.39","url":null,"abstract":"This article surveys critical scholarship that links the literature on sustainable business education and education for sustainable development goals (ESDG). It is assumed that ESDG is desirable in the business curriculum. However, it is argued here that ESDG erroneously fosters the illusion of successfully combining economic growth, social justice, and environmental protection, foregrounding “sustained and inclusive economic growth”, which is often dependent on the increased consumption of natural resources. ESDG rarely addresses industrial expansion that jeopardizes the opportunity for the resolution of environmental crises, ignoring the intrinsic value of nonhuman species and ecosystems and masking the root causes of unsustainability. ESDG places heavy emphasis on economic and social aspects of sustainability, at the cost of the environment. By contrast, some earlier forms of environmental education recognize the limits to growth and emphasize environmental integrity as a foundation for both social and economic activity. This article emphasizes the need to re-orientate ESDG towards genuine sustainability of ecopedagogy in the context of business education, emphasizing transformative business models based on degrowth, circular economy, and steady-state economy. It is argued that a more explicit pedagogical re-orientation towards the recognition of planetary boundaries, as well as toward a less anthropocentric focus is needed.","PeriodicalId":44842,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Environmental Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139516961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Michelle Catanzaro, Philippa Collin, Stewart Jackson
{"title":"The Political in the Anthropocene: Reflections on a Ministerial Veto, 2021","authors":"Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Michelle Catanzaro, Philippa Collin, Stewart Jackson","doi":"10.1017/aee.2023.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.37","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article was prompted by a Ministerial veto (2021) of the Australian Research Council’s decision to fund a research project by the authors to explore the student-led climate movement in Australia. It was also prompted by criticism of the veto which accused the Minister of bringing “politics” into what was represented as a scholarly matter. It addresses two questions: How should we understand this idea of “politics” in the context of Australian climate politics since the 1990s? Secondly it considers dominant ways of thinking about “the political” devised by ancient Greek writers and politicians which still inform the European liberal tradition. We question how fit for purpose this approach is in the Anthropocene? Our key argument is that the western tradition of thinking about “the political” is deeply anthropocentric. Historical traditions have encouraged inegalitarian and anti-democratic accounts of who can be political by excluding different kinds of people from political life. The Anthropocene requires a new, critically reflexive account of “the political” that is inclusive of people currently marginalized and excluded as well as nonhumans and nonliving components of ecosystems on which we all depend. This extends the idea of democracy beyond the human and points to a politics of climate justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":44842,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Environmental Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoga Adi Pratama, Laksmi Dewi, Juwintar Febriani Arwan
{"title":"A review of ‘<i>Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate Change Era: Weather Learning in Early Childhood</i>’ - T. Rooney, & M. Blaise (2022). Rethinking environmental education in a climate change era: Weather learning in early childhood. London: Routledge","authors":"Yoga Adi Pratama, Laksmi Dewi, Juwintar Febriani Arwan","doi":"10.1017/aee.2023.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.33","url":null,"abstract":"A review of ‘Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate Change Era: Weather Learning in Early Childhood’ - T. Rooney, & M. Blaise (2022). Rethinking environmental education in a climate change era: Weather learning in early childhood. London: Routledge","PeriodicalId":44842,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Environmental Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bush Kinders: Building Young Children’s Relationships with the Environment","authors":"Chris Speldewinde, Coral Campbell","doi":"10.1017/aee.2023.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.36","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Early childhood is an important time for building children’s affinity with nature and the environment. Early childhood professionals play a crucial role in developing young children’s understanding of the natural world. Over the past 50 years, there has been a movement in early childhood education and care contexts to provide young children with the opportunity to learn in natural surroundings such as forest schools and nature kindergartens. This research, occurred in four bush kinders, an Australian example of nature-based, early years education influenced by the forest school approach to education. In this paper we interrogate key ideas concerning environmental education, drawing on seminal empirical research, guiding curriculum documents such as Australia’s Early Years Learning Framework and government policy documents to build understandings of how children’s play can be observed by educators who can then support the children to develop their understandings of the natural world around them. Through ethnography, a methodology that uses both participation and observation of research participants, it became apparent that young children’s play-based learning offers opportunities for development of understandings of the environment. Applying a recent definition of environmental education from the US Environmental Protection Authority (2022), we analysed four vignettes which provide examples of educators and children’s interactions supporting children to build an affinity with nature observed during the research. This research’s implications are novel when considering the relatively new bush kinder approach to early childhood education as the findings remind us of the benefits of bush kinders in generating opportunities for young children’s environmental education.","PeriodicalId":44842,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Environmental Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135863977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}