"Designed for introductory social foundations or multicultural education courses, this text offers a model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world."--back cover.

Introduction : the purposes of education in an age of ecological crises and worldwide insecurities -- Rethinking diversity and democracy for sustainable communities -- Cultural foundations of the crisis : a cultural/ecological analysis -- Learning androcentrism : an ecojustice approach to gender and education -- Learning our place in the social hierarchy : an ecojustice approach to class inequality -- Learning racism : an ecojustice approach to racial inequality -- Learning about globalization : education, enclosures, and resistance -- Learning from indigenous communities -- Teaching for the commons : educating for diverse, democratic, and sustainable communities.