“Educating for Water Resilience in the Context of Climate Crisis” To coincide with United Nations World Water Day: March 22, 2020 PDF: JSE Call for Papers-March 2020 Special Issue-Water & Climate Crisis “We are now on the verge of water bankruptcy in many places around the world with no clear way of repaying the debt.” […]
Continue ReadingHistorically there has been a divide between practitioners of media education and environmental education. The causes vary, but can be traced to the legacy of how media studies has neglected to examine the environmental consequences of information and communication technology (ICT), and a historical distrust of technology and media among environmentalists. In recent years emerging fields are bridging this gap, including ecomedia studies, environmental humanities, environmental communication, green cultural studies, ecocinema studies, postcolonial ecocriticism, and ecocriticism. We now have an opportunity to bring sustainability educators into the conversation by exploring mutual interests and crossover between media and sustainability educators. This special issue intends to open up this discussion with innovative and cross-disciplinary scholarship and case studies.
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