Art Education for a Sustainable Planet

Joy G. Bertling is an assistant professor and team leader of art education at the University of Tennessee. She currently serves as founding chair of the National Art Education Association's Ecology and Environment Special Interest Group and chair of the American Educational Research Association's Arts and Learning Special Interest Group.

Contents Foreword Olivia Gude ?ix Acknowledgments ?xiii Introduction ?1 Part I: Foundations for Art Education as Ecopedagogy ?7 1. ?Ecopedagogy ?9 Educational Traditions ?10 Cultural and Philosophical Influences ?14 Conclusion ?19 Questions for Educator Reflection ?20 2. ?Ecological Art ?21 Eco-Art in Recent History ?21 Issues Surrounding Eco-Art ?24 Conclusion ?28 Questions for Educator Reflection ?28 3. ?Contemporary Art Education ?29 Current Art Education Movements ?30 Ecopedagogy as Art Education ?35 Questions for Educator Reflection ?35 Part II. Contemporary Art and Ecopedagogical Curriculum and Methods ?37 4. ?Cultivating Relations and Fostering Empathetic Encounters ?41 Being Present ?42 Emphasizing Relationality ?46 Conclusion ?52 Questions for Educator Reflection ?52 5. ?Embracing Natural Cycles and Processes ?53 Redefining Beauty ?54 Co-Creating With Agents of Decomposition ?61 Culturally Acknowledging Mortality ?64 Conclusion ?70 Questions for Educator Reflection ?70 6. ?Collecting and Visualizing Data for Awareness ?72 Visualizing the Present ?73 Visualizing Our Future ?79 Conclusion ?85 Questions for Educator Reflection ?85 7. ?Confronting Capitalocene Violence ?86 Exposing Cultural Dreams and Desires ?87 Rewriting Identity Stories ?92 Demanding Accountability ?96 Conclusion ?99 Questions for Educator Reflection ?99 8. ?Envisioning Alternate States and Ways of Being ?100 With Jonathan Purtill Envisioning the Future of Human and Nonhuman Nature Relations ?101 Envisaging the Posthuman ?108 Conclusion ?113 Questions for Educator Reflection ?113 9. ?Greening the School and Revitalizing School Culture ?114 With Lauren Farkas Placemaking in Indoor Spaces ?117 Placemaking in Outdoor Spaces ?120 Conclusion ?125 Questions for Educator Reflection ?126 10. ?Restoring Ecosystems and Empowering Communities ?127 Restoring Species and Ecosystem Processes ?128 Establishing Coalitions and Multispecies Assemblages ?133 Conclusion ?138 Questions for Educator Reflection ?139 Conclusion ?140 Appendix A. Artists and Their Websites ?145 Appendix B. Inclusion of Nature in Self Scale ?149 Appendix C. Environmental Identity Scale ?150 Glossary of Terms ?151 References ?155 Author Index ?182 Subject Index ?188 About the Author and Contributors ?194