Recognising Women in Environmental Education Pedagogy and Research: toward an ecofeminist poststructuralist perspective

TitleRecognising Women in Environmental Education Pedagogy and Research: toward an ecofeminist poststructuralist perspective
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsGough, Annette
JournalEnvironmental Education Research
Volume5
Issue2
Pagination143-161
ISSN1350-4622
AbstractIn the past, women have been overlooked in most environmental education programmes through being subsumed into the notion of ‘universalized people’. However, women have a distinctive contribution to make to environmental education pedagogy and research which needs to be foregrounded. This article reports on research into the gaps and silences present in policies, pedagogy and research in environmental education from a feminist perspective. This research has been inspired by feminist critiques of critical pedagogy and the potentialities of feminist poststructuralist methodologies. In particular I focus on the silencing of marginalized perspectives in environmental education policy development, as well as in research conducted from the perspective of the dominant positivist research methodologies, and argue for the possibilities for new directions when poststructuralist pedagogies and research methodologies are used in environmental education.
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1080/1350462990050202
DOI10.1080/1350462990050202
Short TitleRecognising Women in Environmental Education Pedagogy and Research