Routledge Children, Citizenship and Environment: #SchoolStrike Edition

In this significantly revised second edition of Bronwyn Hayward’s acclaimed book Children Citizenship and Environment, she examines how students, with teachers, parents, and other activists, can learn to take effective action to confront the complex drivers of the current climate crisis including: economic and social injustice, colonialism and racism. The global school strikes demand adults, governments, and businesses take far-reaching action in response to our climate crisis. The school strikes also remind us why this important youthful activism urgently needs the support of all generations. The #SchoolStrike edition of Children Citizenship and Environment includes all new contributions by youth, indigenous and disability activists, researchers and educators: Raven Cretney, Mehedi Hasan, Sylvia Nissen, Jocelyn Papprill, Kate Prendergast, Kera Sherwood O’ Regan, Mia Sutherland, Amanda Thomas, Sara Tolbert, Sarah Thomson, Josiah Tualamali'i, and Amelia Woods. As controversial, yet ultimately hopeful, as it was when first published, Bronwyn Hayward develops her ‘SEEDS’ model of ‘strong ecological citizenship’ for a school strike generation. The SEEDS of citizenship education encourage students to develop skills for; Social agency, Environmental education, Embedded justice, Decentred deliberation and Self-transcendence. This approach to citizenship supports young citizens’ democratic imagination and develops their ‘handprint’ for social justice. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to a wide audience, in particular teachers and professionals who work in Environmental Citizenship Education, as well as students and community activists with an interest in environmental change, democracy and intergenerational justice. Review "Bronwyn Hayward captures the struggles of a generation whose present and future is threatened by climate change and other interrelated crises. Her call for more democratic processes highlights the need for deep social transformations, and her SEEDS citizenship model provides us with an actionable framework for nurturing political agency in support a vision of communitarian ecological citizenship. This revised #SchoolStrike edition presents a powerful perspective on youth activism and a growing movement that is committed to equity and social justice." – Professor Karen O’Brien, University of Oslo, Norway "Writing this during the Covid-19 pandemic is a salutary reminder of the importance of books like the second edition of Bronwyn Hayward's Children Citizenship and Environment. Amidst our current crisis Hayward's book is a source of hope. Hope in our young people and the next generation rising to the challenge and opportunities for transformation created by the planetary emergency. 'Hope is the thing with feathers' the poet Emily Dickinson noted. But hope is also the child standing with a poster demanding climate action now, as Hayward's timely and important book tells us." – John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland "Bronwyn Hayward is the rare political scientist who listens to the political views of those who are too young to vote. In Children Citizenship and Environment #SchoolStrike Edition she shares the civic and environmental concerns of children and adolescents and urges us to expand our political imagination, see the connections between ecological and social crises, and embrace the values of a new generation of moral and political activists." – Professor Constance A. Flanagan, Vaughan Bascom Professor of Women, Family, and Community, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. "This new edition of Bronwyn Hayward’s pathfinding text is an all-too-rare thing: serious scholarship that is seriously useful. The book’s communitarian approach to ecological citizenship gives clear pointers for adult allies, teachers and parents that can help them support young people who are having to make se