Learn how to infuse learning with deeper purpose, connectedness, and engagement, so students feel more empowered and less anxious about their futures. In Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters, author and award-winning teacher Maggie Favretti outlines the contexts and causes of "futurephobia" and then offers Regenerative Learning strategies rooted in nature’s principles for repair and redesign. She explains how tending the soil and cultivating the roots of (re)generative power (Love, Personhood, People, Place, Purpose, Process, Positivity) help us disrupt degenerative hierarchical fragmentation. She also explores methods for co-empowering youth creativity, agency, and hope. Chapters include interviews with and contributions by children and young people, as well as key takeaways (Seeds for Planting), and tools to help you implement the ideas. With this book’s thought-provoking concepts, you’ll be able to help students overcome eco-anxiety and find healing connection and meaning for more sustained, regenerative change.
Author(s): Maggie Favretti
Publisher: Routledge/Eye on Education
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 429
City: New York
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Support Material
Author and Youth Contributor Bios
Author
Wisdom Contributors
Youth Contributors
Dedication
Preface
1. Futurephobia and Renewal
When Faced With Extinction, Root Teaching in Life
A Crisis of Agency: Educators and Futurephobia
Learning From Those Who Know Means We Are Never Alone
Nature Is Our Best Teacher
Living Systems Are ...
Living in Disaster-Land
Puerto Rico Teaches the World
Living Without a Future
Why Do Young People Think Their Future Is Disappearing?
No More Blah, Blah, Blah: Youth Activists Meet Unyielding Hierarchies of Power
"They Don't Seem Stressed Enough": Futurephobia Causes Disengagement
The Impact on Science Teachers
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Are Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
What Educators Can Do to Change the Doom Narrative
Futurephobia's Crisis of Agency Leads to Fatalism
Efficacy and Agency: "Now I Know I Have Ideas That Can Help."
What's the New Story?
Why Education Policymakers Should Read This Book, Too
A Matter of Doing Our Part in the Web of Life
How Do I Know We Can Do This? Because ...
Seeds to Plant (Key Ideas)
Notes
Interview: Génesis Ramos Rosado
Génesis Ramos Tells It Like It Is. 7 October 2020.
Notes
2. The Power of Love: Unity in the Universe
Love Is a Teacher's Superpower
Regenerative Power Is Rooted in Love
Everything/Everyone Is Mutually Interrelated
Why Don't You People Tell Us These Things?
Coherence Means That Nothing/No One Is Wasted
How to Stop Wasting People and Our Planet-Mates
How Not to Waste Children
Love Your Kids With Big Ideas
How Not to Waste Elders
How Not to Waste Teachers, Either
Teachers Are First Responders
Natural Systems Only Thrive When There Is Diversity
Unity Is Not Uniformity: Standardization Undermines Diversity
Regenerativity—All of It Works (Generates More Life) When All of It Is Working Together
Cultivate Vision Together
Start With Your Visions of a Good Life
Ask Big Questions
When Students Are Asking the Questions and Co-designing Solutions
What the Regenerative Power of Love in Learning Looks Like: A Garden
Nature Is Continuously Changing and Resilient—Growing, Adapting, Evolving
Seeds for Planting
Notes
3. Cultivating (Re)generative Power
Hierarchical Fragmentations and Degenerative Power
Domestication = Man Over Nature and Man Over Woman
Cognitive Over Emotional Knowing
Rationalism and Hierarchies of Knowledge
White Supremacy
Degenerative Power Degenerates
Stable Shapes of Shared Power
Power Literacy
Unsettling Settler Colonialism With Coherence
Do the Power Audit
Student Comment
Lesson Learned
Parents, "Try this at home"
Regenerative Power in Puerto Rico
The Six P's, the Seeds of Regenerative Power
Personhood
People and Relationships
The Power of Place
The Power of Purpose to Create Change
The Power of Process
The Power of Positive Action
People Are Resilient When They Have the Power to Drive Change
Resilience as Resistance
Seeds for Planting
Notes
4. Personhood and the Power Within: Coming Home to Ourselves
Revolutionary, But Not New
Healing as an Act of Resistance
Indigenous Learning, Direct From Joseph C. Rice, Executive Director, Nawayee Center School, Minneapolis, MN
Medicine Wheels for Healing and Health
Basic Life Principles Found in the Medicine Wheels
Reviving Life in School
A Life-Learning Teacher
Toward Coherence With Educators First
Body and Emotion Work Together to Keep Us Safe and Well
Trauma—When the Body Is Powerless
What Can We Do About It?
Before Anything Else, Safety
The Power in Becoming: Continuous Change
Seeds for Planting
Notes
5. The Power of "People": Kinship With the Whole of Life
From Apart to a Part
Growth Mindsets or, Why Every School Needs a Garden
Communities of Trust and Care
Other-Wise: Teaching Interpersonal and Community Relationships
Trust, Again. The Foundation of All Relationships
A Pluralistic Stance Honors and Celebrates Uniqueness (and Biodiversity)
Color-Blindness Is Monocultural
Verdi Eco School
Harmonizing and Listening Deeply
Listening Fully Means Listening Slowly
Curiosity Drives Conversation
But How Do We Talk About Climate?
Power of Interrelationship in Communities
Seeds for Planting
Notes
6. The Power of Place: Belonging in Contexts
Displaced While at Home
Displacement When Community Schools Close
Displaced Ways of Knowing and Being
When "Home" Is Complicated: Environmental Racism, Displacement, and Migration in the Age of Climate Disasters
Crossing Borders
How Educators Can Invite Students Home
When the Place Generates the Curriculum
Your Class as a Safe Contact Zone
Connecting With Communities of Knowledge and Wisdom
Black Genius; Black Joy
Coming Home to Earth
Earth-Linked Well-Being
Make Room for Awe and Wonder
Shared Experience and Purpose Builds a Sense of Place and Community
The Power of Place in the Age of Climate Disasters
Imagine ...
Seeds for Planting
Notes
Batey, Bomba, and the Regenerative Power of Place-Based Learning in Puerto Rico
Aula en la Montaña (Classroom in the Mountains)
References
7. The Power of Purpose: Motivation, Flow, Depth, and Meaning
Community-Led Resilience in Puerto Rico
What Is Purpose?
Purpose Pushes Motivation and Learning Deeper
Purpose Fulfills Motivation With Agency and Belonging
The Superpower of Purpose Is the Meaning of Life
Learning Ecosystems as Infrastructures of Meaning and Emergence
Seeds for Planting
Notes
8. Power-full Processes: Democratizing How We Change
Design = Relationships + Intention + Agency => Transformation
Principles of Bio-Centric Design
Everybody Designs?
Knowledge Hierarchies
The Role of Educator Expertise and Jargon
Design Is a Civic Process Leading to Regenerativity
Regenerative Citizenship Is Essential to Acting Beyond Futurephobia
Benefits of Design Agency for Youth (and Their Educators)
TIME, TIME, TIME
Why It Helps to Have a (Living) Process for Change in the Age of Climate Disasters
Why You Haven't Seen a Design Process Graphic Yet
A Critical Look at the History of Design Thinking
"Power Audit" the Process As You Go: Design-Critical Thinking
How to Approach Co-design Thinking—Tips for Teachers
Gathering
A Word About Empathy
Clarify
Imagine
Build to Try
Try Again
Enact
Reflection and Celebration
Making Design Thinking Transformative
Seeds for Planting
Notes
Interview: Jeltsin José Obregón
9. Power-full Positivity: Empowered Hope and the Positive Civic Action Cycle
Climate Courage Is Empowered Hope
Teachers and the Positive Civic Action Cycle
Do Something
Cultivate a Culture of Befriend, Tend, and Mend to Stay Positive
Befriend and Tend in Anna, Texas
Co-creating a Civic Action Positivity Cycle for All
Role Models and Preparation for the Green Justice Future
Local Action Brings People Together in Cycles of Positivity
How the Positive Civic Action Cycle Promotes Well-Being Through Agency
Teaching With Well-Being and Power Frameworks in Mind
Other Positive Co-Benefits of the Civic Action Cycle
Pride
Feeling Good
Social/Ecological Capital: Reduced Fragmentation and Increased Cooperation
Compassion and Self-Compassion in the Positive Civic Action Cycle
Positive Civic Action Cycle and Learner Esteem
Grading, Sorting, and the Failure Trap
Environmental Education's Positive Impact on Academic Behavior
The Impact of Agency and Accountability in the Positive Civic Action Cycle
The Positive Cycle of Reflection
Individual Reflection
Collective Success
Seeds for Planting
Notes
10. An Invitation to Possibilities: Creating Power-full Regenerative Learning Communities and Networks
Interrelated Networks of Regenerative Agency
Notes
Acknowledgments
References
