Unraveling Curriculum Practices in Schools to Support Environmental Sustainability Education

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: Shifting Global Perspectives on Environmental and Sustainability Education (Table 12)

Abstract

Curricular responses are necessary to address environmental issues in the Anthropocene. Competencies learned through environmental sustainability education (ESE) curriculum will enable youth in PK-12 school contexts to address our current socio-ecological challenges. One curricular approach involve activities nested in school communities. School-based implementation for this curricular innovation is challenged by curriculum making that ignores the local socio-ecological context of practices. This presentation will introduce a theory of practice architectures and describe the analyses of two school sites implementing ESE curriculum. This methodological approach is a novel way of acknowledging social-dialectical practices by unraveling curriculum practices. Implications for this approach brings value to researchers and practitioners as they identify systemic connections that affect ESE implementation in a school's socio-ecological place.

Author

• Xavier Eric Fazio, Brock University
  Presenting Author