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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
Approaches to environmental education which are engaging with place and critical pedagogy have not yet broadly engaged with the African world and insights from Africana Studies and Geography. An African-centered approach facilitates people's reconnection to places and ecosystems in ways that do not reduce places to objects of conquest and things to be exploited for profitability and individual gain. Such an approach offers effective critiques of settler coloniser perspectives on the environment and deeper understandings of the relationship between worldview and ecologically sensitised education. Through examples from Africana Studies and Geography, this article provides an introduction to how an African-centered approach can contribute to the development of a Land Education perspective and improve college-level environmental education.
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Comments
This work was originally published in Environmental Education Research, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.86511