ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concepts of diversity, democracy, and sustainability. It discusses how the EcoJustice Education framework and art education pedagogy may benefit from close collaboration and assume an active role in individuals, institutions, and societies working toward strong democracy and cultures built on deep, mutual respect. The EcoJustice Education framework entails a "cultural ecological analysis of the roots of social and ecological violence" and "revitalizing the commons through care ethics and pedagogies of responsibility". Arts educators and artists working with EcoJustice educators can help social and ecological justice-oriented activists and community workers in understanding how to meaningfully intertwine the arts into all learning and thus help learners reach learning that would be otherwise inaccessible. Combined with the EcoJustice Education framework, art provides the means and ways of being and creating together and experimenting with thoughts, potentialities, and collective engagements that can empower and enable long-term changes.
