Springer Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education: Canadian Perspectives (International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education)

Product Description This book was inspired by the inaugural National Roundtable on Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canadian Faculties of Education (Roundtable 2016), which took place June 14-16, 2016, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Roundtable 2016 brought together over seventy participants from across Canada, including educators, researchers, policy-makers, consultants, and community organizations. Over the course of three days, participants took part in keynote addresses, research colloquia, networking socials, and collaborative inquiry activities focused on Environmental Sustainability Education in Teacher Education (ESE-TE). Roundtable 2016 resulted in the publication of a National Action Plan containing action-oriented recommendations for enhancing ESE-TE, and a position statement titled “The Otonabee Declaration,” where delegates articulated their views regarding environmental degradation, the critical need for enhancing ESE-TE, and, the role educators, children, youth, educational institutions, policy makers, and Indigenous communities play in enhancing ESE-TE in Canada. This volume concludes with a discussion placing current Canadian ESE-TE theory and practice within an international context. Review “This is a valuable book that makes an important contribution to the area of ESE in TE. … This book has broadened our view on ESE in TE, and we recommend this book to anyone involved in Environmental and Sustainability Education and teacher education in particular.” (Hannah Berning, Chris North and Susannah Stevens, Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, October 9, 2020) “The time has come … for those who acknowledge the need to leave behind the comforts of more conventional humanist forms of qualitative methodology and to re-engage the emergent educational research literature of the past two decades. … It is an orientation that may help clarify the ethics and politics of justice in education in relation to social, environmental and posthuman issues.” (Paul Hart and Catherine Hart, Environmental Education Research, June 16, 2020) From the Back Cover This book was inspired by the inaugural National Roundtable on Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canadian Faculties of Education (Roundtable 2016), which took place June 14-16, 2016, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Roundtable 2016 brought together over seventy participants from across Canada, including educators, researchers, policy-makers, consultants, and community organizations. Over the course of three days, participants took part in keynote addresses, research colloquia, networking socials, and collaborative inquiry activities focused on Environmental Sustainability Education in Teacher Education (ESE-TE). Roundtable 2016 resulted in the publication of a National Action Plan containing action-oriented recommendations for enhancing ESE-TE, and a position statement titled “The Otonabee Declaration,” where delegates articulated their views regarding environmental degradation, the critical need for enhancing ESE-TE, and, the role educators, children, youth, educational institutions, policy makers, and Indigenous communities play in enhancing ESE-TE in Canada. This volume concludes with a discussion placing current Canadian ESE-TE theory and practice within an international context. About the Author Douglas D. Karrow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, Brock University. He teaches in preservice and graduate education programs. Research interests focus on environmental and sustainability education from the standpoints of preservice teacher education, curriculum, and pedagogy. Additionally, he is currently researching the philosophical insights of Martin Heidegger and their application to teacher education, environmental and sustainability education, and education theory writ large. Recent publications include the bo