Teaching Environmental Justice

Practices to Engage Students and Build Community

Elgar Guides to Teaching

Edited by Sikina Jinnah, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership, Jessie Dubreuil, Associate Director for Learning, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, Jody Greene, Special Advisor to the CPEVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Founding Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and the History of Consciousness and Samara S. Foster, Managing Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, University of California, Santa Cruz, US

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com.

This ground-breaking book explores ways to integrate environmental justice modules into courses across a wide variety of disciplines. Recommending accessible, flexible, and evidence-based pedagogical approaches designed by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, it centers equity and justice in student learning and course design and presents a model for faculty development that can be communicated across disciplines.

‘What an absolutely phenomenal resource! Jinnah, Dubreuil, Greene and Foster have pulled together an incredible and diverse collection of experiments, projects, practices, and reflections on teaching environmental justice. There is so much here to motivate, engage, and inspire students – and to address the injustices they face. I can’t wait to get it into the classroom.’
– David Schlosberg, University of Sydney, Australia

‘In this unique and eclectic collection, an esteemed team of scholars charts the pedagogical domain of environmental justice. Drawing on experience from multiple branches of the physical and social sciences, they give teachers theoretical and practical tools for engaging students in understanding and realizing a more just and sustainable world.’
– Paul G. Harris, Education University of Hong Kong

‘It is high time for this brilliant and innovative book that teaches us how to teach environmental justice creatively, collaboratively and across disciplines. Environmental justice is one of the most urgent matters of our times – and teaching is the most important and powerful tool we have to achieve it. The authors and collaborators provide us with an inspiring and invaluable repertoire of tools, projects, experiences and reflections to meet this challenge in the classroom and beyond.’
– Fariborz Zelli, Lund University, Sweden