Education for Environmental Sustainability : An Integrated Approach to Teacher Education

Drawing extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence, including that from the UK, Europe, Australia and Brazil, this book sets out the key ideas, concepts and approaches for education for environmental sustainability in the context of teacher education. Conceptual ideas explored in the book include sustainability, nature and justice as well as empirically grounded approaches for teacher educators including participation, co-creation and outdoor education. This book provides a research-informed guide to enable teacher educators to further explore, reflect and implement education for environmental sustainability in their teaching and research so that teacher education is rooted in the endeavour to live justly on a finite planet.

Elizabeth Rushton is Professor in Education and Head of the Education Division in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, UK.

Marie Brennan is Professor of Education at Victoria University, Australia, and a former Dean of Education at the University of South Australia. She is currently leading the final year of a major Australian Research Council grant (LP100200499) Renewing the teaching profession in regional areas through community partnerships and participating in the Australian study of the Work of Teacher Educators (WOTE).

Joce Nuttall is Amo Matua | Executive Dean in the Faculty of Education and Professor at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, USA, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He has won a number of internationally recognised awards, including, the National Council of Teachers of English Distinguished Service Award in 2017, the International Federation for the Teaching of English Award in 2018, Distinguished Scholar at the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy in 2018 and the Horace Mann League Outstanding Public Educator Award in 2020.

Janet Orchard is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.