Pedagogy for Restoration

Contents: Environmental Education - Oppression - Empathy - Morality - Social Influence and Individual Difference - Pedagogy of Basic Needs - Pedagogy of Identity - Pedagogy of Purpose - Insights for Environmental Education.

David Krzesni is passionate about helping young people lead active, healthy, and purposeful lives and has worked in community health, public schools, and afterschool programs. David teaches high school mathematics and facilitates project-based learning and outdoor enrichment activities. David earned his master's degree in environmental education from Western Washington University and his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

«Central to David Krzesni's Pedagogy for Restoration is the central question to a nation's school system: education for what? He rightly critiques the ways in which dominant pedagogical approaches have normed historical amnesia and moral obtuseness to our detriment. Simultaneously, Krzesni assures us that it does not have to be this way any longer. Pedagogy for Restoration emboldens readers to remember the teachings of our ancestors, insisting that the purpose of education is not to escape suffering, but to end it.»
(Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Associate Professor, Raza Studies & Education, San Francisco State University)
«David Krzesni's Pedagogy for Restoration is a deeply personal work that raises important questions about the relationship between social and ecological degradation. The book is incredibly timely as such questions and examinations are proving to be among the most trenchant of our time. Krzesni's focus on the politics of hope, empathy, and moral education not only provides a unique frame through which to consider the structures of oppression and liberation but also offers students of education and social change what they have long asked for - a pedagogy of restoration.»
(Sandy Grande, Associate Professor, Co-Chair, Education Department, Director, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Connecticut College)
«At a time where much looks bleak for people and their relationships with themselves, others, and with the earth, we need narratives of renewal, purpose, and possibility. We need guides to remind ourselves of our own potential to heal broken relationships. In Pedagogy for Restoration, David Krzesni is such a guide. This book will challenge your identity as an educator and provide you with pathways for your own revitalization in connection with others.»
(David A. Greenwood, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Education, Director, Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University)