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Innovative praxis for environmental learning in Canadian faculties of education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2021

Laura Sims ,
Hilary Inwood Open the ORCID record for Hilary Inwood [Opens in a new window] ,
Paul Elliott  and
Susan Gerofsky
Laura Sims
Affiliation:
Faculty of Education, Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Hilary Inwood*
Affiliation:
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Paul Elliott
Affiliation:
School of Education, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Susan Gerofsky
Affiliation:
Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: lsims@ustboniface.ca
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Abstract

This article explores innovative praxis in Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in four preservice teacher education programmes in Canada. ESE is finding its way into teacher education in a variety of innovative and interdisciplinary ways, as both part of mainstream programmes and in their co-curricular margins. Using a case study approach, each case builds on unique connections to Indigenous education, art education, cultural learning or educational gardening, which supports a variety of differing aspects in relation to ESE. These cases share a common theme of building relationships at the heart of ESE teaching and learning in the mainstream and the margins of the academy. Brought together through a Canadian network of faculty, researchers, policy-makers and community educators that was formed in 2016, these cases demonstrate a deep commitment and imaginative capacity for embedding ESE in Canada’s teacher education systems.

Keywords

environmental educationsustainability educationpreservice teacher educationpraxisinnovation
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , November 2021 , pp. 240 - 253
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