2. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Alysha Farrell

Hosted by Neil Wilson Podcast Non-Fict Youth

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Thursday

Feb , 2023

12:01pm

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Dr. Alysha Farrell

In order to face the climate emergency in solidarity with the youth, there needs to be a significant change in how we ascribe meaning to the space-time relationships that support all life in school communities.

Part 2 of our 6-Part series on Teaching in the Anthropocene.

This new critical volume presents various perspectives on teaching and teacher education in the face of the global climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Teaching in the Anthropocene calls for a reorientation of the aims of teaching so that we might imagine multiple futures in which children, youths, and families can thrive amid a myriad of challenges related to the earth’s decreasing habitability.

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The Authors

Dr. Alysha Farrell

Dr. Alysha Farrell is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brandon University. She is passionate about fostering a caring ecology in the study of education. Her research focuses on teaching, leading, and learning in the face of the climate crisis. Using arts-based methods like playwriting, forum theatre, narrative photography, and poetic inquiry, she collaborates with others to tell stories that will stick to your bones. Her recent research-art exhibition at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba was called Before I Go to Bed Tonight. The exhibition featured the work of 17 young artists who delved into the personal and collective impacts of climate change. Alysha is the author of two books, Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Educational Leadership (2020) and Ecosophy and Educational Research for the Anthropocene (2022). She co-edited a third book called, Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis that was released in July 2022. She has presented at several national and international conferences on topics such as using arts-based approaches to better understand the emotional dimensions of climate change education and eco-orientations to pedagogy.