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Place-based pedagogy is an approach to education that emphasizes authentic connection to local contexts, environments, cultures, and histories. It engages students in real-world experiences that form the foundation for lessons across academic subjects, using approaches including field trips, service projects, and visits from community members. It can be used in formal or informal education, including distance learning, and is related to educational approaches like experiential learning, democratic education, multicultural education, and inquiry- or project-based learning. It is often used in biology, environmental, and climate science education by bringing students into nearby nature.

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Planetarianism is an epistemological orientation proposed by Marek Oziewicz as an alternative to the dominant neoliberal discourse that renders Earth as expendable and unsavable. A two-level phenomenon, planetarianism refers to a biocentric commitment to stand up for the planet and our common biospheric legacy in everything we do: how we work, eat, travel, and live. In the realm of language, planetarianism operates as applied hope articulated through stories—a form of hope-as-resistance and a conceptual tool for ushering in the future we want (instead of the future we fear).

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Related Terms: Oil Spill, Trash, Landfill, Smog, Garbage, Trash, Waste

pile of trash, Planetarianism, Climate Lit

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Producerism is a notion proposed by ecological philosopher Rupert Read to describe the core operational principle of capitalism: its fixation of producing more and more stuff for monetary profit (i.e. growth), its need to sell this stuff to consumers (see consumerism), and its foundational lie that consumers—not producers (marketers and distributors)—are the driving force and beneficiaries of the entire process.