Reflections on illuminations: unforgetting and other expansions in pursuing a gender agenda in environmental education research

Abstract

This article reflects on and responds to the eight articles that interacted with my 2024 book, Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives. It draws together some of the important themes illuminated and interrogated by the respondents and suggests future directions for research in gender and environmental education. These include: the need for unforgetting; using the concept of the Capitalocene to name the root cause of the climate change emergency; engaging non-Western perspectives; implementing anticolonial methodologies; researching intersectionality and for multispecies justice; promoting interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in order to understand environmental problems better; re-thinking strategies, and changing school curricula so that they incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing and caring for the environment.