Browsing by Person "Crowther, Jim"

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Climate justice education: From social movement learning to schooling
(Routledge, 2018-11-01) McGregor, Callum; Scandrett, Eurig; Christie, Beth; Crowther, Jim
In recent years, the insurgent discourse of climate justice has offered an alternative to the dominant discourse of sustainable development, which has arguably constructed climate change as a global 'post-political' problem, with the effect of erasing its ideological features. However, even climate justice can be considered a contested term, meaning different things to different social actors. Accordingly, this chapter offers a theoretical analysis of the challenges and opportunities for a climate justice education (CJE), which prioritises the distinctive educative and epistemological contributions of social movements, and extends analysis of such movements, by considering how the learning they generate might inform CJE in schools. Regarding the latter, we focus on the Scottish context, both because it represents the context in which our own knowledge claims are grounded, and because the mainstreaming of Learning for Sustainability (LfS) in policy presents an ostensibly sympathetic context for exploring climate justice. We conceptualise CJE as a process of hegemonic struggle, and in doing so, consider recursive 'engagement with'-as opposed to 'withdrawal from'-the state (Mouffe, 2013), via schooling, to be a legitimate dimension of social movement learning.
Die erneuerung von politik und bildung: Gegen austeritätspolitik und für radikale intellektuelle arbeit in der hochschule=The renewal of politics and education: Against austerity and radical intellectual work in the college
(De Gruyter, 2016-12-01) Crowther, Jim; Scandrett, Eurig
Learning environmental justice and adult education in a Scottish community campaign against fish farming
(Routledge, 2012-01) Crowther, Jim; Hemmi, Akiko; Scandrett, Eurig
Community campaigns against local sources of pollution and environmental degradation form the building blocks of movements for environmental justice. They also constitute important locations for people to learn about the environment and obtain outlooks, knowledge and skills with which to tackle pollution and address sustainable alternatives. The learning which occurs is usually informal and involves collective learning for action. A challenge to formal educators is to be able to support such learning. This account is of the learning which has been achieved during a community campaign against fish farming in the community of Scoraig in Wester Ross, north-west Scotland. We identify a complex diversity of learning within the community, involving information-gathering and critical analysis, between those active in the campaign and those supportive but less active, and in interaction between formal and informal education.
Social Learning in Environmental Justice Struggles: a political ecology of knowledge
(Sense Publishers, 2012-11) Scandrett, Eurig; Clover, Darlene; Crowther, Jim; Hall, Budd; Scandrett, Eurig