Land Education: Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives - Paperback

by Kate McCoy (Editor), Eve Tuck (Editor), Marcia McKenzie (Editor)

The emergence of the Land Education movement challenges place-based pedagogies to address the injustices caused by settler colonialism. Contributors examine how new studies of education, land, Indigenous rights, and sovereignty help to address these issues. It was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

Author Biography

Kate McCoy is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and affiliated faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at SUNY New Paltz, NY, USA. Her scholarship focuses on qualitative research methods and representation, cultural studies of addiction and drug use, and historical and contemporary uses of drug-crop agriculture in colonial processes.

Eve Tuck is Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Her scholarship focuses on the ethics of social science research and educational research, Indigenous social and political thought, decolonizing research methodologies and theories of change, and the consequences of neoliberal accountability policies on school completion.

Marcia McKenzie is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Director of the Sustainability Education Research Institute at University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of environment and education, educational policy and practice, youth identity and place, and the politics of social science research.