Teaching the Environmental Humanities International Perspectives and Practices

O'Gorman, Emily; Van Dooren, Thom; Munster, Ursula; Adamson, Joni; Mauch, Christof; Sorlin, Sverker; Armiero, Marco; Lindstrom, Kati; Houston, Donna; Padua, Jose Augusto; Rigby, Kate; Jones, Owain; Motion, Judy; Muecke, Stephen; Chang, Chia-Ju; Lu, Shuyuan; Jones, Christopher; Green, Lesley; Matose, Frank; Twidle, Hedley; Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew; Wiggin, Bethany; Jörgensen, Dolly (2019): Teaching the Environmental Humanities International Perspectives and Practices. In: Environmental Humanities, Vol. 11, No. 2: pp. 427-460

Abstract

This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critical engagement with some of the key challenges and opportunities that are emerging in EH teaching, centering on how the field is being defined, shared concepts and ideas, interdisciplinary pedagogies, and the centrality of experimental and public-facing approaches to teaching. The final part of the article offers six brief summaries of experimental pedagogies from our authorship team that aim to give a concrete sense of EH teaching in practice.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Research Centers: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)
• Subjects: 500 Science > 500 Science
• ISSN: 2201-1919
• Language: English