Leesa Fawcett
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Associate Professor, PhD Program Coordinator, Faculty of Environmental Studies.
E-mail: lfawcett@yorku.ca
Biography
Leesa Fawcett has taught Environmental Education, Critical Education for Social Change, Bioregionalism and Culture and Environment in the graduate program. She has also taught the undergraduate courses Foundations of Nature, Technology and Society, and Environmental Education.
Leesa has advised students working on topics such as wolf management, science and environmental thought, environmental education through narrative, cross-cultural learning, women in Thailand, traditional ecological knowledge, and deep ecology and ecofeminism.
Leesa is a member of the Conservation Biology Society, the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication, the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, and the Toronto editorial group of the international journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.
Research Interests
Principal research interests relating to sustainability are: environmental education, sustainable agriculture and food education, human/animal relationships and feminist environmental and cultural studies.
Selected Publications
In press “Bioregional Teaching: How to Climb, Eat, Fall and Learn from Porcupines.” In P. Tripp & L. Muzzin (eds.), Teaching as Activism: Equity Meets Environmentalism. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. pp.269–280.
2002 (with C. Russell and A. Bell) “Guiding Our Environmental Praxis: Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Environmental Education.” In W. L. Filho (ed.), Teaching Sustainability at Universities – Towards Curriculum Greening. London: Peter Lang Scientific Publishers.
2000 “Ethical imagining: Ecofeminist possibilities and environmental learning,”Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 5, pp. 134–149.
2000 (with C. Russell and A. Bell) “Navigating the waters of Canadian environmental education.” In T. Goldstein and D. Selby (eds.), Weaving Connections: Educating for Peace, Environmental and Social Justice. Toronto: Second Story Press, pp. 196–217.
1998 (ed. with R. Keil, D.V.J. Bell, and P. Penz) Political Ecology: Global and Local. New York/London: Routledge.
Research Projects:
Currently, working as the Principal Researcher on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant, “Thinking About Animal Minds: An exploration of animal consciousness in whales and bats.” ($77,369)
From 1999–2002 as a Co-investigator, (Principal Investigator: L. Muzzin, University of Toronto), working with national group of feminist scientists. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Strategic Grant (Women and Change theme): “Biology as if the World Mattered (BAITWorM).” ($70,440)
From 1992–1994 as a Co-director (with M. Viezzer, Brazil and B. Hall, U of T) involved in an international project, “Transformative Learning Through Environmental Action.” International Development Research Council, ($146,301)
