ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 explains Environmental Liberation Education as a holistic empowerment approach for educators and students across cultures, subjects, and education levels. It defines Environmental Liberation Education as critical consciousness circles to connect subjects to cultures, mindfulness, and sustainability, indoors and outdoors, on site and off. It describes how this approach motivates with big picture questions and joyful justice experiences during academics to reduce the bias, assimilation, segregation, and environmental destruction patterns of mainstream education. It presents how transformative teachers deepen core content with arts and sciences integrations. It explains how to counteract fear of change through hands-on academic engagement for diversity belonging with humanization questions, cultural practices and stories, and scientific methods and data. It shows how to develop antibias-antiracist culture competence and structural competence during hourly and daily activities. It explains non-defensive peace practices for creative tension. It reviews Three Transformative Tools to structure, process, and assess requirements with systemic healing criteria for a superdiverse-biodiverse world. It provides fresh Environmental Liberation Education examples about applying local context to global themes during routines. It presents two Multicultural Mindfulness Activities and one journal question: Nonverbal Communication Toothpick Game, Environmental Liberation Education Made Easy, and What’s Environmental Liberation Education?
