Towards Critical Environmental Education

Aristotelis S. Gkiolmas is a member of the Teaching Staff at the Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He obtained a Bachelor (B.Sc.) in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and he worked many years as a Science teacher, in all levels of the Greek Secondary Education. His research interests include Environmental Education, critical pedagogies, teaching about social and environmental Justice and understanding complexity in societies, in education and in Nature.Constantine-(Kostas) Skordoulis is Professor of Epistemology and Didactical Methodology of Physics at the Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He teaches Environmental Ethics, Didactics of Science and Theory of Scientific Knowledge. He has published extensively on socio-scientific and environmental issues and has been involved in organizing the international conferences on critical education. His latest book is: “From Environmental Ethics to Political Ecology: an ecosocialist perspective”.

• Foreword.- Our Human-Centered Focus is Killing Us (A case for returning to our original notion of diversity).- Hell: Critical Environmental Pedagogy through Popular Dystopic Films.- Finding an Environmentally Sustainable Future through Indigenous Hip Hop Culture.- Why Class Matters in Environmental Education.- “This Branch is an E”: Duoethnographic Conversations between an Educator and a Parent.- Toward an Interspecies Critical Food Systems Education.- Ecocritical Environmental Education: Pedagogy for Resisting Human-Supremacy.- "Paulo Freire and a Curriculum for the Capitalocene.".- Critical situated learning and environmental education.- Critical Environmental Education with an ecosocialist vision or Natural Disasters taught as Socially-driven and Class-oriented phenomena: The point of view of Critical Pedagogy.- Integrating struggles for Environmental Justice into the Curriculum: A Critical Pedagogy viewpoint (* Three case-studies from Greece: Keratea’s sanitary landfill, Chalkidiki’s  gold mines and the struggle regarding Asopos river).- Critical situated learning and environmental education.- "There is only the We": Education for Environmental Equity and Justice.- Creating Environments for Equity, Race, and Disciplinary Ideologies in Urban Teacher Education.