Sustainability education has typically centered the human-focusing on the changes and paradigm shifts needed to ensure a sustainable future for humans. Yet nonhuman beings, specifically plants and animals, are and have always been central to our lives, prompting wonder, curiosity, sensitivity and awe, as well as being important in their own right. In Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond: Teaching for a Sustainable Future the contributors discuss the importance of seeking a more inclusive, more just, and ultimately a more hopeful future. They consider how everyday, entanglements with plants and animals can challenge us and expand our worldview. The contributors consider the importance of reciprocal relationships with plants and animals and provide practical strategies, approaches, and examples of how that looks in practice in all types of educational settings.

About the Author

Patty Born is associate professor of environmental and STEM education at Hamline University.

Reviews

A plethora of diverse beings share our wondrous but fragile planet. This very important and eclectic book will readily serve to get people to think about individuals of all species, how they're deeply interconnected in numerous and surprising ways, and how the future and integrity of our magnificent surroundings depend on fostering multispecies thinking resulting in taking community-wide action for all.

-- Marc Bekoff, author of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence and The Emotional Lives of Animals

Offering an interesting, and broad, spread of both theoretical discussion and practical classroom examples of how and why we need to look beyond the human in sustainability education, this book will be of deep interest (and delight!) to educators and others interested in learning more about multispecies relations.

-- Nik Taylor, University of Canterbury



Book Information
ISBN 9781666916669
Author Patty Born
Format Hardback
Page Count 182
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 431g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 17mm