Art, EcoJustice, and Education

Raisa Foster is an independent artist and scholar, and was the Research Director of the Art-Eco Project from 2015 to 2017 in Tampere, Finland. Jussi Mäkelä is an artist and PhD candidate at the University of Tampere, Finland, and was a Researcher for the Art-Eco Project from 2015 to 2017 in Tampere, Finland. Rebecca A. Martusewicz is Professor of Social Foundations in the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University, USA.

1. Introduction: Contemporary Art as Critical, Revitalizing, and Imaginative Practice Toward Sustainable Communities 2. For the Most Important Parts of You: A Story About Science 3. Recognizing Mutuality: The More-Than-Human World and Me 4. The Experience of the Uncanny as a Challenge for Teaching Ecological Awareness 5. Letters from Love’s Great Room: Fiction as Cultural Ecological Analysis and Pedagogy of Responsibility 6. Art Is That Which Takes Something Real and Makes It More Real Than It Was Before 7. Poetry and EcoJustice in a Kenyan Refugee Settlement 8. The Uncle Vanya Project: Performance, Landscape, and Time 9. For the Love of the Forest: Walking, Mapping, and Making Textile Art 10. Finding My Wound, Bandaging My Knife: Stimulating Inner Transformation through Art 11. Building Ecological Ontologies: EcoJustice Education Becoming with(in) Art-science Activisms 12. Apptivism, Farming, and EcoJustice Art Education 13. Creativity as Intrinsic Ecological Consciousness 14. Love in the Commons: Eros, Eco-Ethical Education, and a Poetics of Place