Samuel Day Fassbinder
GREENING THE ACADEMY:
ECOPEDAGOGY THROUGH THE LIBERAL ARTS
Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy through the liberal arts
Sense Publishers
2012 - 254 pages
Winner! 2013 Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies
Association (AESA)
ISBN Paperback: 9789462090996 ($ 54.00)
ISBN Hardcover: 9789462091009 ($ 99.00)
This is the academic Age of the Neoliberal Arts. Campuses—as
places characterized by democratic debate and controversy, wide ranges of
opinion typical of vibrant public spheres, and service to the larger
society—are everywhere being creativelydestroyed in order to accord with market
and military models befitting the academic-industrial complex.
While it has become increasingly clear that facilitating the
sustainability movement is the great 21st century educational challenge at
hand, this book asserts that it is both a dangerous and criminal development
today that sustainability in higher education has come to be defined by the
complex-friendly “green campus” initiatives of science, technology, engineering
and management programs.
By contrast, Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the
Liberal Arts takes the standpoints of those working for environmental and
ecological justice in order to critique the unsustainable disciplinary
limitations within the humanities and social sciences, as well as provide
tactical reconstructive openings toward an empowered liberal arts for
sustainability.
Greening the Academy thus hopes to speak back with a
collective demand that sustainability education be defined as a critical and
moral vocation comprised of the diverse types of humanistic study that will
benefit the well-being of our emerging planetary community and its numerous
common locales.
Praise for this book:
“Critical, crucial, and challenging, this book initiates a
dialogue essential to the survival of our planet and all the species on it,
including our own. Ignored for far too long by leaders of the major social
institutions around the world, this book poses the question of whether the
academy will belatedly tackle the urgent policies and actions necessary to
ameliorate the ecological destruction wrought by predatory capitalism.
University Centers for Teaching and Learning should use this book to generate
meaningful discussions of curriculum transformation wherever possible.” -- Dr. Julie Andrzejewski, Co-Director,
Social Responsibility Masters Program, St. Cloud State
University
“Breaks through barriers that continue to enervate higher
education’s contribution to environmental education and ecological justice. By
connecting radical “cognitive praxis” and authentic Indigenous perspectives to
a variety of relevant topics, it offers educators motivation and maps for
helping us all regain our lost balance before it is too late.” -- Four Arrows, Editor of Unlearning the
Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
“This is an important and urgent book that represents a
landmark for higher education. It is a book that must be heeded, and, more
importantly acted upon.” -- Dr. Peter
McLaren, Author of Che Guevara, Paulo
Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
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