[ecrea] Call for book section submissions: Pedagogy of Environmental Communication

*Call for submissions: **/Pedagogy of Environmental Communication/*

Co-Editors: Tema Milstein (University of New Mexico), Mairi Pileggi
(Dominican University of California), Eric Morgan (New Mexico State
University)

We are seeking chapter and assignment/activity submissions for an edited
book on the scholarship of innovative and effective teaching and
learning in environmental communication. Each semester, more
environmental communication courses are added to higher education
curricula.  Overwhelmingly, those of us who teach environmental
communication are developing the courses for the first time for our
academic homes.  While there have been numerous communities formed
through professional associations to assist those of us who teach
environmental communication and a few textbooks, the goal of this volume
is to reach a wide community of environmental communication scholars and
practitioners to provide a resource that helps organize and integrate
diverse pedagogical practices, connect and inspire those interested in
environmental communication learning, and feature thoughtful, creative,
and highly effective approaches to environmental communication pedagogy.

The book will have an international and diverse focus to represent the
range of environmental communication learning spaces and approaches, as
well as the range of global and local issues our teaching engages. The
book currently has interest from a top publisher and the editors are
entering the second proposal stage.

The chapter sections of the book include but are not limited to:

*(Re)conceptualizing the Environmental Communication Classroom*

*Diverse Approaches to Teaching Environmental Communication*

*Transformative Practice: Creating and Empowering Change Agents*

An additional section of the book will be devoted to practical sharing
of highly effective teaching gifts:

*High Impact Environmental Communication Teaching Activities and
Assignments*

Our call, therefore, is for two types of contributions:

I.*Chapters: *These scholarly papers will address environmental
communication pedagogical practice based on, but not limited to, the
themes of: (Re)conceptualizing the Environmental Communication
Classroom, Diverse Approaches to Teaching Environmental Communication,
Transformative Practice: Creating and Empowering Change Agents

II.*Activities/Assignments: *These will be particular in-class and
out-of-class activities and assignments you as teachers have found
highly effective in your own classrooms. They will include a concise
essay-like description (400 words max) about the activity/assignment and
how it has been effective in teaching, followed by highly accessible and
detailed how-to instructions, including learning objectives and
evaluation approach.

Consider the following when contemplating your submissions: What are you
doing to deepen and connect learning in your environmental communication
classes and what innovative strategies are you using that have been
highly effective?  What approaches have you used to make learning
relevant to your students and the world beyond the classroom? How do you
design your course, your assignments, develop rubrics, and assess
student learning to address environmental communication-specific
learning outcomes? How do you include a diversity of voices (race,
gender, socioeconomic class, sexuality, global south, animal other, more
than human world, etc.) in the learning conversation? How are you
integrating praxis and service? How are you collaborating across
disciplines?  How do graduate environmental communication courses differ
from undergraduate? What high impact research and other creative
projects have you undertaken with your students?  How do you embed your
course in local spaces, places, community, practitioner teachers, and
environments?  How do social media or other 21^st Century skills figure
in your environmental communication instruction?  If reflection is a key
component in your courses, how do you achieve this?  How are you
empowering and supporting yourself and your students to be
transformative change agents in both thought and action?Finally,
consider how the delivery or format of your submission can be as
innovative, interactive, and/or evocative as the pedagogical content you
discuss.

Scholars, educators, practitioners, and students across the discipline
(and related fields) are invited to submit chapter and/or
activity/assignment submissions:

CHAPTER SUBMISSIONS INCLUDE:

(1) a completed version of a paper (5,000-8,000 words including
references) or an extended abstract (400-500 words) (APA 6^th edition)
and (2) a 200-word bio.

ACTIVITY/ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSIONS INCLUDE:

(1) a short essay-like description (400 words max) and how-to
instructions, objectives, and evaluation and (2) a 200-word bio.*
Due date for consideration*:May 11, 2015

*By May 11, 2015, email submissions to:*either Tema Milstein at
(tema /at/ unm.edu) <mailto:(tema /at/ unm.edu)>OR Mairi Pileggi at
(mairi.pileggi /at/ dominican.edu) <mailto:(mairi.pileggi /at/ dominican.edu)>

Note: All submitters will be contacted with decisions by the editors by
June 8, 2015. Those given revise/resubmits and those submitting
abstracts the editors want to consider further will be expected to
submit revisions and/or complete papers by July 31, 2015.**

Tema Milstein
Associate Professor
PhD Program Director
Department of Communication & Journalism
University of New Mexico
www.unm.edu/~cjdept/department/profiles/milstein.html
<http://www.unm.edu/~cjdept/department/profiles/milstein.html>



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