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The Eco-Certified Child

Citizenship and Education for Sustainability and Environment

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Malin Ideland

    1. Faculty of Education and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

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  • Explores how Environmental and Sustainability Education is embedded in historical discourses on social class, nationality and race
  • Highlights how the discourse of ESE can further embed and reproduce positions of suborder and superiority
  • Problematizes children's roles in the sustainable world and asks how we can make the adults of today accountable

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment (PSEE)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Making the Other Through Good Intentions

    • Malin Ideland
    Pages 1-29

  3. Free-Range Children

    • Malin Ideland
    Pages 31-58

  4. Eco-Certified Energy

    • Malin Ideland
    Pages 59-84

  5. Locally Grown

    • Malin Ideland
    Pages 85-106

  6. Natural—With No Artificial Additives

    • Malin Ideland
    Pages 107-127

  7. Eco-Certified Children and Irresponsible Adults

    • Malin Ideland
    Pages 129-137

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 139-162
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About this book

While few could dispute the need for Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) for children and young people, this book explores the problems inherent in this educational practice. Despite good intentions, the author highlights how ESE can in fact contribute to a (re)production of harmful norms and possible subjectivities by categorizing various groups as ‘threats’ to the environment. The author analyzes how these categorizations are entangled in historical discourses on social class, nationality and race, thus resulting in double gestures of inclusion and exclusion. Even as sustainability and environmental engagement becomes a treasured identity for the affluent, the author highlights that despite the best of intentions, the discourse of ESE can reinforce positions of suborder and superiority, which could even impede real change in the long run. This illuminating book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of sustainability education.

Foreword by Thomas S. Popkewitz

Reviews

“I found myself engaged with the arguments of the book and the freshness of the data analyzed. … I see myself already planning to make it a mandatory reading in my graduate course on environmental education.” (Giuliano Reis, Science & Education, Vol. 31, 2022)

“My assessment, biased by my training as a cultural anthropologist, is that The Eco-Certified Child is a signature text and a must-read for those teachers teaching the teachers.” (Paul H. Mason, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 37, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

    Malin Ideland

About the author

Malin Ideland is Professor of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Education and Society, Malmö University, Sweden. Specializing in ethnology, her research interests centre around the discourse of environmental and sustainability education.

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