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Bowers, C. A. – Environmental Education Research, 2008
Given the growing environmental awareness, educators - especially in science and environmental education - need to avoid embracing a "critical pedagogy of place". Why conflating critical pedagogy with place-based education is an oxymoron, and why it perpetuates the thinking and silences that undermine both the diversity of the world's cultures and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Education, Environmental Education, Social Justice
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Bowers, C. A. – Environmental Education Research, 2002
Addresses three issues: (1) the nature and importance of an eco-justice pedagogy; (2) how an eco-justice pedagogy differs from the recommendations of critical pedagogy theorists; and (3) the reforms that need to be undertaken in teacher education in order for teachers to balance critical inquiry with helping students recognize and participate in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Science and Society, Science Education