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- Abrams, David, 10
- activism, 8, 41, 85, 146–50, 163–64
- Adam (creation story figure), 119–20
- addiction, 12, 79
- advocacy, 22, 149
- African Americans, 85, 87
- Afrofuturism, 87–88
- Akomolafe, Bayo, 86
- alienation, 17, 55, 57, 90, 174; disease and, 14, 80; healing and, 12, 16; hyperactive pessimism and, 152; independence and, 51; more-than-human concept and, 10; “myth of the isolated mind” and, 11; neoliberalism and, 79; undoing, 115–16. See also isolation
- allergies, 83
- Anthropocene, 15, 46, 87, 111
- anthropocentrism, 52, 131, 137; in Camus, 109; cosmology and, 120; of culture, 92–94, 129, 163; epistemology and, 172; marginalization and, 6; more-than-human concept and, 10, 55; pedagogy and, 133; of schools, 58, 72; teachers and, 106, 142
- anxiety, 74, 80–81; biochemical model of, 78; eco-, 174; increases in, 12, 57, 77–79; individualism and, 162; relational capacity and, 63
- assault, 90–91
- assumptions, knowledge and, 105–6
- asthma, 79, 83
- attentive receptivity, 67
- Atwood, George, 11
- autochthony, 144
- autonomy, 51–53, 99, 128–29, 143
- axiology, 99, 107–12
- Beeman, Chris, 46–48
- belonging, 20, 39, 49, 69, 80, 96, 169
- Between Man and Man (Buber), 147
- biases, 6, 14–15, 55, 63, 81
- binaries, 116–17, 193n16
- bio-morality, 73
- biophilia, 55
- bipolar disorder, 57, 82
- Bird Rose, Deborah, 119–20
- Blenkinsop, Sean, 16, 22–23, 27, 41
- bonding, 62–63, 69–70
- Botany of Desire, The (Pollan), 83
- BPA, 57
- Braiding Sweetgrass (Kimmerer), 83–84
- Britton, James, 36
- Buber, Martin, 64, 147
- bullying, 122–25
- Cabanas, Edgar, 72
- Camus, Albert, 107–10, 129
- Cancer Stages of Capitalism, The (McMurtry), 13
- capitalism, 15, 72, 84, 158, 170
- caregivers, 34–35
- Cederström, Carl, 73
- child-rearing, 51–52, 62
- citizenship, 132, 143
- climate change, 13, 80, 84–86, 176
- cognitive structures, of standard education, 25–27
- colonialism, 16, 19–20, 94, 112, 164, 193n16
- community: axiology and, 107; -based lessons, 141; building, 39, 45, 150, 162–63, 165; cultivation and, 5; -focused ecologizing educator, 166–69; gardening and, 82; as guiding principle/value, 29; Indigenous, 24, 91; integration, 31–32
- competition, 5, 18, 56, 60, 84, 118, 158
- conformity, 21, 60, 71, 88, 93–94, 126–27
- cosmology, 118–21
- courage, 94, 110, 178
- COVID-19 pandemic, 37, 79, 85, 111, 162
- creation stories, 119–20
- criminal justice, 92–93
- Crutzen, Paul, 15
- cultural change, 14–17, 98–129, 156–59, 164–78
- culture(s), 5–6; of detachment, 52; foundational stories and, 119–21; gift economy, 20; of happiness, 72; health and, 77; literacy-based, 120–21; of positivity, 74; power and, 96; rapacious, 13, 16; substrates of, 99; Western, 16
- curriculum: design, 60, 138, 150; guidelines, 20; hidden, 74; implicit, 61; integration, 31; inverted, 141–42; mandated, 3; standard, 35, 131
- deep ecology, 107, 110–11
- deficit model, 21, 99, 122
- Deleuze, Gilles, 104
- democracy, 116, 132–34, 136, 149
- depression: biochemical model of, 78; exposure to nature and, 82; happiness mandate and, 73; increase in, 12, 57, 79–80; individualism and, 162
- Descartes, René, 51
- desks, in standard education, 25, 49–50
- detachment, 52, 60
- discipline, 60, 67, 123
- discontent, 76–80
- disease, 13, 51, 76–80, 82
- diversity, 20, 81, 96, 150, 168–70, 173
- double consciousness, 63, 125–27
- DuBois, W. E. B., 127
- eco-anxiety, 74, 174
- eco-feminism, 28–29, 88–89, 107, 110–11, 126
- ecologizing education: alienation and, 115–16; change-embracing, 175–78; community-focused, 166–69; defining, 8; graduate experiences after, 38–39; as growth process, 7–8; relational in, 64; research and, 8–10; schools and, 8–10
- ecology: children and, 54–55; cultural, 64; deep, 107, 110–11; emergence of, as field, 50; as guiding principle/value, 29–30; queer, 154
- education: systemic isolation in, 58–61
- education, standard: physical and cognitive structures of, 25–27
- efficiency model, 21, 60, 86
- embodiment, 87, 113–15
- English language, 65
- epistemology, 99–107
- eye contact, 54
- habitat selection theory, 55
- Hägerhäll, Caroline, 82
- happiness, 71–74
- Harney, Stefano, 94
- Haudenosaunee, 20
- healing, 12–15, 72, 80–84, 88–94
- health: culture and, 77; exposure to nature and, 82–83; habitat encroachment and, 79; indoor schooling and, 46; interconnectedness and, 76; neoliberalism and, 79; planetary, 13, 16, 19, 74, 79; racism and, 85; Western conceptions of, 174. See also disease; mental health
- Holt, John, 60
- Huang Jian-Rong, 42–43
- human development, 121–29
- human exceptionalism, 26
- “hyperactive pessimism,” 151–53
- identity workers, teachers as, 150–56
- imagination, 31–32, 38, 75, 142–45
- immune system, 83
- inclusion, 63, 169–70
- individualism, 51–53, 55–57, 72, 79–80, 90, 93, 163
- inequity, 170
- injustice: climate, 72; naming, 171; responding to, 21–22; social, 109; systemic, 177
- inquiry, as guiding principle/value, 30–31
- integration, as guiding principle/value, 31–32
- interconnectedness, 12–13, 69–70, 77–78, 99, 115, 140, 175
- interdependence, 31, 50, 62–63, 78, 128, 133, 178
- ions, 82–83
- Irigaray, Luce, 119
- isolation, 53–61, 96. See also alienation
- LaDuke, Winona, 57
- Landrigan, Philip, 46
- Leopold, Aldo, 141, 194n6
- Lieberman, Matthew, 12, 62
- Lil’wat First Nation, 20
- listening walk, 67, 103–4
- literacy, 35–36, 38, 47, 102
- literacy-based cultures, 120–21
- logging, 19
- loneliness, 11, 16, 95–96. See also isolation
- Longboat, Roronhiakewen Dan, 20, 83, 142–44
- Lourie, Bruce, 45
- MacQuarrie, Jodi, 22, 25, 37, 161–62
- Macy, Joanna, 75
- Maitland, Clayton, 21–22, 24–25, 27, 37, 44
- Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, 19
- Maple Ridge Environmental School, 20–21, 29–33, 38, 48, 68, 80, 92, 105, 130, 136, 139–40, 151, 156–57, 161, 166
- Marker, Michael, 19
- masculinity, 93, 126
- Maslow, Abraham, 51, 62
- Maté, Gabor, 13, 79, 93
- materialism, 50, 54, 73, 94
- math, 36
- Mathias, Alex, 48
- McMurtry, John, 13
- McQuarrie, Jodi, 80
- Meaney, Michael, 54
- medication, psychiatric, 78–79
- meetings, 23–24
- mental health, 13, 57, 81–82, 162. See also depression; psychology
- metaphors, 104–5
- mood disorders, 78–79
- Moten, Fred, 94
- “Mother Earth,” as term, 69
- mothers, 52
- Narvaez, Darcia, 52–54
- nature/culture divide, 113, 116–18
- Nature Education for Sustainable Todays and Tomorrows (NEST), 40–41, 44, 104–5, 150, 166
- negative air ions, 82–83
- negativity, 71, 73–75
- neoliberalism, 72, 79, 84, 108
- NEST. See Nature Education for Sustainable Todays and Tomorrows (NEST)
- neurodiversity, 3, 80–81
- nouns, 65
- numbing, 75
- numeracy, 35–36
- parents, 34–35, 39, 52, 54, 71, 163, 177
- patriarchy, 88–89, 107, 126, 152
- PCEP. See Place Conscious Ecological Practice (PCEP)
- pedagogy, 7, 32, 61, 132–34, 150
- physical structures, of standard education, 25–27
- phytoncides, 83
- Piersol, Laura, 16, 40
- place: autochthony and, 144; embodiment in, 114; as guiding principle/value, 29; voices of, 66–68
- Place Conscious Ecological Practice (PCEP), 26–28
- Plumwood, Val, 88
- Pollan, Michael, 83
- positionality, 34, 37
- positivity, 71, 74–75
- possibility, as guiding principle/value, 30–31
- posthumanism, 36
- Potawatomi language, 65–66
- power, 96, 170; change reluctance and, 26; in critical work, 171; culture and, 96; healing wounds of, 88–94; of natural world, 23; norms and, 154; oppression and, 170; speaking truth to, 110; standard education school buildings and, 25
- principles, guiding, 28–32
- privilege, 9, 26, 69, 88–94, 112, 152, 171
- “problem student,” 21–22
- psyche, splitting of, 125–27
- psychiatric medication, 78–79
- psychology, 50–52, 121–29. See also depression; mental health
- purpose, shared, 169
- queer ecology, 154
- racism, 16, 22, 80, 85, 167, 170; anger and, 21; axiology and, 107; conformity and, 126; dismantling, 26; in education, 91; entitlement and, 94; hyperactive pessimism and, 152; implicit, 153; pollution and, 76; psychic-splitting and, 127; trauma from, 79
- rain, 32–33, 35–36
- rationality, 5, 11, 88
- reading, 36, 120–21
- Rebel, The (Camus), 107–9
- reconciliation, 37, 42, 72, 93–94, 163
- relational instinct, 55, 59, 61–64
- relationality, 15, 24, 51, 57, 65–66, 113, 174
- relational worldview, 68–70
- relationships, 11, 24, 67–68, 77, 81, 95–96
- rhizome metaphor, for knowledge, 103–7
- risk management, 40–41, 45
- risks: in ecologizing education, 44–45; in indoor schooling, 45–47
- Roszak, Theodore, 50
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 51
- Rushworth, Stan, 8, 14, 85–86, 88
- safety, 43–45
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 148–49
- schizophrenia, 76, 82
- seeds, 165
- self-suppression, 95–97
- seniority, of teachers, 26
- senses, dulling of, 113–14
- sexual assault, 89–91, 93–94
- Sheridan, Joe, 20, 83, 142–44
- Shiva, Vandana, 60
- Simard, Suzanne, 18
- Sitka-Sage, Michael De Danann, 16
- Six Nation, 20
- Slow Death by Rubber Ducky: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health (Smith and Lourie), 45
- smell, 113–14
- Smith, Rick, 45
- Snider, Naomi, 88, 92
- Sobel, David, 156
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 27
- Soga, Masashi, 82
- sound walk, 67, 103–4
- Spicer, Andre, 73
- spiderweb metaphor, for knowledge, 101–3
- SSHRC. See Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- status, social, 73
- Stolorow, Robert, 11
- stories, 118–21, 170
- substance abuse, 80. See also addiction
- suppression, 75, 95–97
- sustainability: as guiding principle/value, 29–30; mutually beneficial flourishing and, 110; reconciliation and, 94; settlers and, 19
- Taiwan, 42–44
- teachers: as activists, 146–50; care-based, 173–75; critically-engaged, 169–73; as critical thinkers, 142–46; as cultural change workers, 156–59; as identity workers, 150–56; parents and caregivers as, 34–35; pool of, 33–35; rebel, 108–10; seniority of, 26; in standard education, 25; stepping back, 134–38; training of, 25–26. See also pedagogy
- terminology, 10
- theory, 98–99
- time, linear, 84–88
- training, teacher, 25–26, 33, 42, 174
- trauma, 5, 78, 89–92, 119, 121–22, 174
- Truth About Stories, The (King), 119
- Tuan, Yi-fu, 50–51
- Turtle Island, 20
- Twenge, Jean, 12, 73
- Wabi Sabi, 73
- Waldorf education, 36, 41, 119
- Watson, John B., 52
- Wellness Syndrome, The (Cederström and Spicer), 73
- wholistic, 76–80
- Wild Pedagogies: Touchstones for Re-Negotiating Education and the Environment in the Anthropocene (Jickling et al, eds.), 67–68, 193n2
- Williams, Lorna, 20
- Wisdom of Trauma, The (film), 79
- women, 63, 80, 88, 91–94. See also eco-feminism
- Yueming Elementary, 42–44
- Zupančič, Alenka, 73