SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 074: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Teaching about Environmental Social Problems
Room: Ballroom West

Sponsors: Environment and Technology
Teaching Social Problems

Organizers: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University and Nottingham Trent University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Description: 

This session, organized as a session for “papers in the round,” explores the challenges and opportunities that relate to the teaching of environmental problems.

The session takes a broad view on environmental problems and includes papers on teaching climate justice and on methods and strategies for teaching environmental justice. It also includes papers that discuss the teaching of environmental social problems through the use of research results and a discussion on how to develop Ecopedagogy, considering the specific pedagogical challenges and considerations inherent to teaching environmental social problems.

The organizers envision robust conversations pertaining to the many facets of teaching about environmental issues.

Roundtable #1 Title: Teaching About Environmental Social Problems

Presiders: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University and Nottingham Trent University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Discussant: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University and Nottingham Trent University

Papers:

“Ecopedagogy: A Framework for Countering ‘Post-truth,’ ‘Anti-woke,’ and Individualistic Politics in the Classroom,” Lauren Eastwood, SUNY, Plattsburgh

“Teaching Climate Justice: A Research Agenda,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University and Nottingham Trent University

“Teaching Environmental Justice: Methods and Strategies for Social Work Education,” Sara E. Strayer, Alliant International University and Stephen W. Stoeffler, Kutztown University

“Teaching about Environmental Social Problems through First-hand Research Results: Strategies to Prepare Tools and Presentations for Students and Professionals,” Morena Tartari, Northumbria University, Newcastle and Hamide Elif Üzümcü, University of Padua