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Sean P. Connors – English Journal, 2025
We live in what a growing number of scientists call the Anthropocene. Combining the Greek root word anthrop- (human) and the suffix -cene (new or recent), the Anthropocene is a period of time in which human activity is understood to have grown so impactful as to alter Earth's conditions. Examples of these planetary changes include (but are not…
Descriptors: English Instruction, World Problems, Depleted Resources, Natural Resources
Sarah Stanlick – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Extractivism is so often characterized as resource extractivism - the exploitation of a community's natural resources for economic gain. However, when we think about the relationships between community and university, there are many ways in which the university can take out of the community or benefit to an extent that extracts human, capital, and…
Descriptors: Universities, School Community Relationship, Community Education, Colonialism
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Hyena Kim – Gender and Education, 2024
Living in a wasted world is an educational problem that requires a radical shift in more-than-human relationships. Education has served as a means for re/producing socio-ecological waste by legitimizing discrimination among earthly beings. Ecofeminism reveals a common mechanism underlying different hierarchies as well as embodied connections…
Descriptors: Feminism, Ecology, Environmental Education, Humanism