01/23/2017
Environmental Justice Conference: Redefining Nature
Call for Proposals (April 1, 2017, Teachers College, New York)
This conference will open a space to embrace a vision of the participatory classroom that hinges on the production rather than the recapitulation of knowledge. By fostering conversations about pedagogies, policies, and philosophies, this conference seeks to make visible the unseen feedback loops of injustice in our environments, ecologies, communities, and classrooms.
Participants are invited to present pedagogies, policies and philosophies that interrupt or trouble the narrative of human versus nature. Ideal presentations will bridge classroom practice to an understanding of nature that is inclusive of both human culture and non-human elements.
Presentations should fit one of the following formats:
15-20 Minute Presentations
50 Minute Workshop
Poster Presentations
Interactive booth activity (which will run concurrently with poster session)
Questions to guide submissions:
What does it mean to learn in an environment?
Where is “nature” inside the classroom?
How might students represent or model nature in the classroom?
How can we teach broader ecological perspectives?
How do teachers encourage students to think about the social implications of scientific understandings?
What is the relationship between a school’s location or population and their access to “nature?”
Proposals (250-500 words) are to be submitted here by January 31, 2017. Questions? Contact Gary Weiser at [email protected].
EJCatTC.org
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