3. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Maria Vamvalis

Hosted by Neil Wilson

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

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Feb , 2023

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Maria Vamvalis

Students are choosing to move their bodies out of the classroom and onto the streets…demanding vigorous forms of agency that can respond to the apocalyptic futurities with a sense of purpose and meaning yet draw on deep understandings that can orient learners in life-affirming ways.

Part 3 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

Maria Vamvalis

Maria Vamvalis is currently a doctoral candidate in the Curriculum and Pedagogy program in the department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research focuses on climate justice education that nurtures meaning, purpose and hope in learners. She has been an educator in the public school system in Ontario and has worked for many years as a facilitator of teacher professional learning and as a curriculum consultant. She has participated in diverse educational projects and has been deeply committed to reflexive practices within education. She is currently an instructor in the Master of Teaching program at OISE, University of Toronto.