Review of Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the face of the environmental crisis

As the global environmental crisis escalates so does the publication of books about life in the Anthropocene.Gaining attention of readers across disciplines and genres, these books examine the origins, impacts, and implications of living in a geological age in which the activity of some humans has permanently altered the climate and the environment of the planet.But what does the age of the Anthropocene hold for education?This urgent question is the focus of the recently published book Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of the Environmental Crisis, edited by Alysha J. Farrell, Candy Skyhar, and Michelle Lam.It is one of the few books to date that offers practical and theoretical insights for teachers and teacher educators facing the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene in their classrooms, schools, and communities, with particular relevance for (settler) 1 colonial contexts.1 Settler colonialism is a form of colonization whereby outsiders claim a land as their new home, displacing Indigenous peoples and establishing settler superiority through