Will We Learn From COVID-19? Eco-Pedagogical Calling (Un)Heard

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Freirean Perspectives on the Struggles for Social Justice

Abstract

‘(Un)heard’ in the title questions if we will learn from experiencing COVID-19 to counter unrestrained environmental devastation occurring, or will we remain largely untaught? I argue the need for transformative, Freirean-based ecopedagogy for praxis through, in part, problematizing and then countering dehumanizing, deplanetarizing pandemic responses to ‘wake’ us in recognizing the need of socio-environmental justice and sustainability.

Author

• Greg William Misiaszek, Beijing Normal University