Trading Zones in Environmental Education

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the Editors
• About the Book
• This eBook can be Cited
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Tales of a Transdisciplinary Scholar: Marianne E. Krasny
• Is Changing Environmental Behavior a “Wicked” Problem?
• Approaches Used in Addressing Wicked Problems
• Cross-Disciplinary Research
• Systems Thinking and Adaptive Management
• Participatory Research
• Transdisciplinary Research
• The Process of Creating This Book
• Methods: “Arranged Marriages”
• Chapter Summaries
• Section I. Participation
• Section II. Appreciation
• Section III. Place
• Afternote
• References
• Section I. Participation
• Chapter 1. Art and Environmental Education Research: Reflections on Participation: Joseph E. Heimlich and Mary Miss
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 2. Participation in Environmental Education: Crossing Boundaries under the Big Tent: Jeppe Læssøe and Marianne E. Krasny
• Introduction
• Traditions of Participation in Environmental Education
• Participation as Encounters with Nature
• Participation as Social Learning
• Participation as Action
• Participation as Deliberative Dialogue
• Types of Participation Summary
• Case Examples of Overlapping Types of Participation in EE
• Local Citizen Participation in Times of Ecological Modernization in Denmark
• U.S. Civic Ecology Practices and Civic Ecology Education
• Models for Transboundary Participation
• Nested Participation
• Linked or Coupled Participation
• Sequential Participation
• Expanding Participation
• Transboundary Participation Models Summary
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 3. Building Capacity for Community-Based Natural Resource Management with Environmental Education: Martha C. Monroe and Shorna Broussard Allred
• Introduction
• Engaging Participants
• Building Capacity
• Evaluating Processes and Outcomes
• Taking Environmental Education to Community Level
• EE Can Contribute to CBNRM
• Merging and Blending
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Chapter 4. Learning and Knowing in Pursuit of Sustainability: Concepts and Tools for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research: Scott Peters and Arjen E. J. Wals
• Introduction
• Grounding Scenario: The Marcellus Shale
• Reorienting Higher Education in the Face of (Un)Sustainability
• Learning in a Risk Society
• A Learning Ecology
• Practical Theory Building
• Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 5. Inquiry, Models, and Complex Reasoning to Transform Learning in Environmental Education: Barbara A. Crawford and Rebecca Jordan
• Conceptions of Environmental, Ecological, and Scientific Literacy
• Why Models?
• Models and Our Disciplines: Who We Are
• Models and Modeling from Our Practice
• Systems and Cycles
• Fossil Finders
• Supporting Modeling in Educational Practice
• Modeling to Transform Our Research
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Section II. Appreciation
• Chapter 6. Art and Environmental Education Research: Reflections on Appreciation: Joseph E. Heimlich and Mary Miss
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 7. The Emotional Life of the Environmental Educator: John Fraser and Carol B. Brandt
• Introduction
• Examining the Emotional Power of Narrative in Environmental Education
• A Cassandra Complex
• Emotional Work in Environmental Education: Stress and Depression
• Emotions and Educational Research
• Implicating the Environmental Education Knowledge Culture
• Emotional Labor in Environmental Education
• Scientism as a Source of Frustration
• Navigating the Emotional Headwaters
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 8. Psychological Resilience, Uncertainty, and Biological Conservation: Junctures Between Emotional Knowledges, Nature Experiences, and Environmental Education: Leesa Fawcett and Janis L. Dickinson
• Introduction
• The Complex Roots of Anthropocentrism
• Psychohistorical Perspectives on Nature and Culture
• Nature as Vital to Human Development: The Psychological and Developmental Importance of Nature Connections
• Emotional and Psychological Experiences of Nature as a Double-Edged Sword: Grief, Loss, and Fear
• Emotions and Mental Barriers: A Perspective from Secular Buddhist Psychology
• Transforming Our Relationship with Nature: The Emotional Context of Environmental Issues
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Section III. Place
• Chapter 9. Art and Environmental Education Research: Reflections on Place: Joseph E. Heimlich and Mary Miss
• References
• Chapter 10. Disturbances in Urban Social-Ecological Systems: Niche Opportunities for Environmental Education: Timon McPhearson and Keith G. Tidball
• Primary Questions
• Environmental Literacy in Crisis
• An Ecological Identity
• The Urban System
• Disturbances in Complex Social-Ecological Systems
• Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
• Environmental Education in Social-Ecological Systems
• Urban Environmental Disasters Create Niches in SESs
• September 11, 2001: The New York City Case Study
• Hurricane Katrina: The New Orleans Case Study
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Chapter 11. Mobility, Power, and Scale in Place-Based Environmental Education: Richard C. Stedman and Nicole M. Ardoin
• Introduction
• Environmental Education and Sense of Place
• The “Where” and “Who” of Place-Based Education: Questioning the Local
• Cosmopolitan Mobility and Attachment
• Toward Reflexive Considerations of Place: Research Questions and Methods
• Research Questions
• Toward a Research Approach
• Conclusion
• References
• Conclusion. Do “Arranged Marriages” Generate Novel Insights?: Marianne E. Krasny, Megan K. Halpern, Bruce V. Lewenstein and Justin Dillon
• Preamble
• Introduction
• Transdisciplinary Experience at the Workshop
• Purpose of the Project
• Recurring Themes
• Recurring Metaphors
• Nature of Transdisciplinarity
• Group Process Issues
• Transdisciplinary Experience during Chapter Writing
• Did the Project Attain Its Goal?
• Research and Practice Implications
• References
• Index