articleEnvironmental Education ResearchJan 2, 2014Closed access

Land education: Indigenous, post-colonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research

SUNY New Paltz · University of Saskatchewan

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Abstract

This editorial introduces a special issue of Environmental Education Research titled ‘Land education: Indigenous, post-colonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research.’ The editorial begins with an overview of each of the nine articles in the issue and their contributions to land and environmental education, before outlining features of land education in more detail. ‘Key considerations’ of land education are discussed, including: Land and settler colonialism, Land and Indigenous cosmologies, Land and Indigenous agency and resistance, and The significance of naming. The editorial engages the question ‘Why land education?’ by drawing distinctions between land education and…

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Keywords
  • Environmental education
  • Indigenous
  • Place-based education
  • Indigenous education
  • Colonialism
  • Agency (philosophy)
  • Sociology
  • Land use
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