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Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

Teaching for a Sustainable Future

Edited by Patty Born - Contributions by Patty Born; Elizabeth Boileau; Kirsten Valentine Cadieux; Victoria Derr; Megan Gessler; Alice Miller; Madison Moreno; Bryan H. Nichols; Kenton Parker; Juan Ramirez; Sheila Williams Ridge; Maggie Struck; Cynthia Torres; Ruth Wilson and Tracy Charlotte Young

Sustainability education has typically centered the human-focusing on the changes and paradigm shifts needed to ensure a sustainable future for humans. Yet nonhuman beings, specifically plants and animals, are and have always been central to our lives, prompting wonder, curiosity, sensitivity and awe, as well as being important in their own right. In Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond: Teaching for a Sustainable Future the contributors discuss the importance of seeking a more inclusive, more just, and ultimately a more hopeful future. They consider how everyday, entanglements with plants and animals can challenge us and expand our worldview. The contributors consider the importance of reciprocal relationships with plants and animals and provide practical strategies, approaches, and examples of how that looks in practice in all types of educational settings.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 182 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-66691-666-9 • Hardback • February 2024 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-66691-667-6 • eBook • February 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social Science / Environment, Education / Elementary / Science, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology, Nature / Animals / General, Nature / Plants / Flowers

Patty Born is associate professor of environmental and STEM education at Hamline University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Why Multispecies Thinking? Why Now? And How? by Patty Born

Part I: Perspectives

Chapter 1: Imagining Spaces of Hum(an)imality by Animalising Childhoods and Socialising Animalhoods by Tracy Charlotte Young

Chapter 2: Entangled Kitchens: Eating with the Trouble by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

Chapter 3: Animals and the Gifts They Bring by Ruth Wilson

Part II: Practice

Chapter 4: Supporting Children’s Ecoliteracy and Multispecies Relations through Critical Literacy Practices: Using Environmental Literature in the Elementary Classroom by Maggie Struck and Patty Born

Chapter 5: Moments of Environmental Kinship: Learning in, with, about, and for the Whole of the Natural World by Sheila Williams Ridge and Megan Gessler

Chapter 6: Pathways to Better Relationships with Wildlife: Clarifying Concepts and Considering Possibilities by Bryan H. Nichols

Chapter 7: Taking the Long View: Applying Multispecies Awareness to Educational Observation by Patty Born

Part III: Examples from the Field

Chapter 8: Magical Moments and Spots of Sunshine: A Partnership to Support Multispecies Flourishing by Victoria Derr, Alice Miller, Madison Moreno, Kenton Parker, Juan Ramirez, and Cynthia Torres

Chapter 9: Life in the Garden by Sheila Williams Ridge

Chapter 10: Multispecies Entanglements in an Urban Park by Elizabeth Boileau

Index

About the Contributors

A plethora of diverse beings share our wondrous but fragile planet. This very important and eclectic book will readily serve to get people to think about individuals of all species, how they're deeply interconnected in numerous and surprising ways, and how the future and integrity of our magnificent surroundings depend on fostering multispecies thinking resulting in taking community-wide action for all.


— Marc Bekoff, author of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence and The Emotional Lives of Animals


Offering an interesting, and broad, spread of both theoretical discussion and practical classroom examples of how and why we need to look beyond the human in sustainability education, this book will be of deep interest (and delight!) to educators and others interested in learning more about multispecies relations.


— Nik Taylor, University of Canterbury


Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

Teaching for a Sustainable Future

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Sustainability education has typically centered the human-focusing on the changes and paradigm shifts needed to ensure a sustainable future for humans. Yet nonhuman beings, specifically plants and animals, are and have always been central to our lives, prompting wonder, curiosity, sensitivity and awe, as well as being important in their own right. In Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond: Teaching for a Sustainable Future the contributors discuss the importance of seeking a more inclusive, more just, and ultimately a more hopeful future. They consider how everyday, entanglements with plants and animals can challenge us and expand our worldview. The contributors consider the importance of reciprocal relationships with plants and animals and provide practical strategies, approaches, and examples of how that looks in practice in all types of educational settings.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 182 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-66691-666-9 • Hardback • February 2024 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
    978-1-66691-667-6 • eBook • February 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social Science / Environment, Education / Elementary / Science, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology, Nature / Animals / General, Nature / Plants / Flowers
Author
Author
  • Patty Born is associate professor of environmental and STEM education at Hamline University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents

    List of Figures and Tables

    Introduction: Why Multispecies Thinking? Why Now? And How? by Patty Born

    Part I: Perspectives

    Chapter 1: Imagining Spaces of Hum(an)imality by Animalising Childhoods and Socialising Animalhoods by Tracy Charlotte Young

    Chapter 2: Entangled Kitchens: Eating with the Trouble by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

    Chapter 3: Animals and the Gifts They Bring by Ruth Wilson

    Part II: Practice

    Chapter 4: Supporting Children’s Ecoliteracy and Multispecies Relations through Critical Literacy Practices: Using Environmental Literature in the Elementary Classroom by Maggie Struck and Patty Born

    Chapter 5: Moments of Environmental Kinship: Learning in, with, about, and for the Whole of the Natural World by Sheila Williams Ridge and Megan Gessler

    Chapter 6: Pathways to Better Relationships with Wildlife: Clarifying Concepts and Considering Possibilities by Bryan H. Nichols

    Chapter 7: Taking the Long View: Applying Multispecies Awareness to Educational Observation by Patty Born

    Part III: Examples from the Field

    Chapter 8: Magical Moments and Spots of Sunshine: A Partnership to Support Multispecies Flourishing by Victoria Derr, Alice Miller, Madison Moreno, Kenton Parker, Juan Ramirez, and Cynthia Torres

    Chapter 9: Life in the Garden by Sheila Williams Ridge

    Chapter 10: Multispecies Entanglements in an Urban Park by Elizabeth Boileau

    Index

    About the Contributors

Reviews
Reviews
  • A plethora of diverse beings share our wondrous but fragile planet. This very important and eclectic book will readily serve to get people to think about individuals of all species, how they're deeply interconnected in numerous and surprising ways, and how the future and integrity of our magnificent surroundings depend on fostering multispecies thinking resulting in taking community-wide action for all.


    — Marc Bekoff, author of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence and The Emotional Lives of Animals


    Offering an interesting, and broad, spread of both theoretical discussion and practical classroom examples of how and why we need to look beyond the human in sustainability education, this book will be of deep interest (and delight!) to educators and others interested in learning more about multispecies relations.


    — Nik Taylor, University of Canterbury


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