Teaching social studies amid ecological crisis

Kissling, Mark T.; Bell, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/00933104.2019.1673267

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Section: Worldview Threat and Western Culturementioning

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“…As Kissling and Bell (2020) aptly noted, conceptualizations of citizenship and community in social studies (and arguably beyond) desperately need to expand into a "land ethic" (p. 3). Building off the thoughtful work of Aldo Leopold (1949Leopold ( /1966, Kissling and Bell (2020) have called for a recognition of communities that include entities like soil and water. Such a disposition, of course, hearkens to the sort of webbed kinship often articulated as "all my relations," a phrase and sensibility that permeates a variety of Indigenous traditions in North America (King, 1994) and likely elsewhere.…”

Section: Worldview Threat and Western Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A more "ecological worldview" (whether Indigenous or not) runs contrary to the more dominant anthropo/euro/centric worldviews that permeate Western societies (Martusewicz, Edmundson, & Lupinacci, 2015, p. 11; see also Kissling & Bell, 2020). Many Western worldviews, housed in Enlightenment thinking, see a particular manifestation of the human-the Western, rational, bourgeois "Man" (Wynter, 2003)-as above other entities.…”

Section: Worldview Threat and Western Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is urgent for educators to manage the deep existential roots of the barriers to education and activism about the climate crisis, both their own and those of their students. As Kissling and Bell (2020) asserted:…”

Section: A Concluding Thoughtmentioning

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Teaching the Climate Crisis: Existential Considerations

Kessel

2020

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It is urgent that educators in social studies and science (among other disciplines) consider the ethical imperative of teaching the climate crisis—the future is at stake. This article considers a barrier to teaching this contentious topic effectively: existential threat. Through the lens of terror management theory, it becomes clear that climate catastrophe is an understandably fraught topic as it can serve as a reminder of death in two ways. As will be explained in this article, simultaneously such discussions can elicit not only mortality salience from considering the necrocene produced by climate catastrophe, but also existential anxiety arising from worldview threat. This threat can occur when Western assumptions are called into question as well as when there is disagreement between those with any worldviews that differ. After summarizing relevant aspects of terror management theory and analyzing the teaching of the climate crisis as an existential affair, specific strategies to help manage this situation (in and out of the classroom) are explored: providing conceptual tools, narrating cascading emotions, carefully using humor to diffuse anxiety, employing language and phrasing that does not overgeneralize divergent groups, and priming ideas of tolerance and even nurturance of difference.

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Section: Worldview Threat and Western Culturementioning

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Section: Worldview Threat and Western Culturementioning

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Section: Worldview Threat and Western Culturementioning

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Section: A Concluding Thoughtmentioning

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Teaching the Climate Crisis: Existential Considerations

Kessel

2020

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“…Teaching about ecological issues within social studies classrooms provides teachers with new and engaging opportunities for students to learn about and take civic action. While these issues remain marginalized within the field (Kissling and Bell, 2020), there is a growing canon of theoretical and practitioner-oriented research to support the teaching of ecological issues in social studies classrooms. Because of the impending nature of the climate crisis and the relative marginalization of ecological issues in the social studies, a review of research that is practitioner oriented can provide a better understanding of the current research, a clearer guide for research opportunities in the future and stronger justification for educators who want to integrate ecological issues into their social studies curriculum.…”

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Rubber ducks to ecological citizenship: a review of practitioner-oriented research on ecological issues in the social studies

Seitz

2020

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PurposeThe world is facing unprecedented potential disaster with the impending climate crisis. Research within social studies education surrounding the integration of ecological issues, while still on the fringes, has seen a recent surge. This is a review of practitioner-oriented research published in the last ten years on teaching these issues in social studies classes.Design/methodology/approachThis study reviews practitioner-oriented articles on teaching ecological issues in social studies classes. The author searched databases and did a manual review using specific search terms. The author’s first level of analysis was to analyze the year of publication, whether the article was (co) written by a practicing teacher and whether the article featured a lesson plan/resources. The author then analyzed the content/focus of each article.FindingsIn total, ten articles were (co)written by a practicing teacher, 23 articles included lesson plans and the article themes could fall into one of six themes (water issues, pollution, climate change, climate activism, sustainability and economic growth and ecological citizenship/ethics).Research limitations/implicationsThe author was unable to review one year of articles from the Ohio Social Studies Review due to the COVID-19 pandemic and only having remote institutional access to library materials.Originality/valueIn reviewing the practitioner-oriented articles, the author hopes to not only strengthen the curricular justifications for teaching these issues in social studies classes but also show what research has been done and provide critiques and show what could be done in the future.

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Antink-Meyer

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability

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Teaching social studies amid ecological crisis

Cited by 35 publications

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Teaching the Climate Crisis: Existential Considerations

Teaching the Climate Crisis: Existential Considerations

Rubber ducks to ecological citizenship: a review of practitioner-oriented research on ecological issues in the social studies

K-8 Sustainability Education

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