Call for Papers for Special Issue "Education and Ecological Precarity: Pedagogical, Curricular & Conceptual Provocations"

Guest Editors: Fikile Nxumalo, Preeti Nayak & Eve Tuck
Deadline for full manuscripts: November 1st, 2020

From flooding in Texas, to the shrinking of Lake Chad, to the bushfires in Australia, multiple ongoing climate-related disasters have shown the already devastating impacts of global warming on human and more-than-human life. The United Nations estimates that climate crisis disasters are now occurring once a week; many of them in the Global South. Climate scientists often assert that education is an important factor in slowing global burning, yet education as a field is still heavily invested in individual-level approaches to “saving the environment.” In contrast to the lived realities of the precarities brought about and worsened by climate change, there remains a disconnect between how quickly human and more-than-human lives are changing, and responsive and responsible changes in curriculum and pedagogy. This special issue aims to address this disconnect by bringing together educational, research and conceptual approaches that disrupt the politics of education-as-usual in the face of climate crisis.

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