Comparative and International Education, ecopedagogy, education for sustainability, (post)critical theories and education, Paulo Freire, decolonial education, higher education, adult education, public pedagogy, peace education, Indigenous and Southern epistemologies and theories, ecolinguistics, postdigitalism, (eco)feminism, citizenships (local-to-global-to-planetary citizenship) education, (eco)racism, posthumanism

 

Greg William Misiaszek, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Education. He holds the position of Associate Director at the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA. He is the Chief Editor of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Environmental Education (with Karen Malone); Executive Editor of the Teaching in Higher Education journal, and Bloomsbury Book Series Editor of Freire In Focus (with Carlos Alberto Torres). His work focuses on ecopedagogy, comparative/international studies, adult/higher education, socio-environmental justice, planetary sustainability, Freirean scholarship, anti-anthropocentrism, migration, technologies, (eco)linguistics, and Indigenous/Southern epistemological diversity through (post)critical theories of globalizations, citizenships, race, gender, and postdigitalism, among others. His latest solo-authored books include Ecopedagogy and the Global Environmental Citizen: Critical Issues, Trends, Challenges and Possibilities (2025, Routledge) and Freire and Environmentalism: Ecopedagogy (2023, Bloomsbury). His latest edited books include the Palgrave Handbook on Critical Theories (Springer, 2023, with Ali Abdi) and Handbook of Ecological Civilization (2025, with Michael Peters, Ben Green, and Xudong Zhu). He has four solo-authored books, six edited books, and over 70 other publications. Dr. Misiaszek holds a Ph.D. from UCLA in Comparative Education, an M.S. in education (University of Southern California (USC)), and a B.S. in Environmental Studies (USC). He has held various (visiting) professor positions at Beijing Normal University, Nagoya University, the University of San Francisco, and California State University, Long Beach.

Solo Authored Books
Misiaszek, G. W. (2025). Ecopedagogy and the Global Environmental Citizen: Critical Issues, Trends, Challenges and Possibilities. London: Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Ecopedagogy-and-the-Global-Environmental-Citizen-Critical-Issues-Trends-Challenges-and-Possibilities/Misiaszek/p/book/9781032670874)
Misiaszek, G. W. (2023). Freire and Environmentalism : Ecopedagogy. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/freire-and-environmentalism-9781350292116/)
Misiaszek, G. W. (2020). Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Pustice and Global Sustainable Development. London: Bloomsbury. (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ecopedagogy-9781350083813)
Misiaszek, G. W. (2018). Educating the global environmental citizen: Understanding ecopedagogy in local and global contexts. New York: Routledge. (www.routledge.com/Educating-the-Global-Environmental-Citizen-Understanding-Ecopedagogy-in/Misiaszek/p/book/9781138700895)

Edited Books
Michael A. Peters, Benjamin J. Green, Greg William Misiaszek & Xudong Zhu (2025), Handbook on Ecological Civilization: Concept, Philosophy, and Pedagogy. Springer International Publishing: Cham. (https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-97-8101-0)
Ali A. Abdi & Greg William Misiaszek (2022), Palgrave Handbook on Critical Theories of Education. Springer International Publishing: Cham. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-86343-2)
Aneta Hayes, Kathy Luckett, Greg William Misiaszek (2023) Possibilities and Complexities of Decolonising Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Praxis. Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Possibilities-and-Complexities-of-Decolonising-Higher-Education-Critical/Hayes-Luckett-Misiaszek/p/book/9781032447629)
Greg William Misiaszek & Lauren Ila Misiaszek (2023). Paulo Freire Centennial: Reinventing and reinvigorating Freire (2023). Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Paulo-Freire-Centennial/Misiaszek-Misiaszek/p/book/9781032536644)

Articles
Misiaszek, G.W. (in press, 2025). Wicked Problems Untamed by Attacking Sociology in Higher Education: (Re)Entrenching Sociologies to Prevent Environmental Crises. Sociology.
Short, Mary. E., Ensweiler, Michaela., & Misiaszek, G. W. (in press, 2025). Widening Students’ Ways of Knowing Global Environmental Issues through Deepened Local Understandings: Childhood Ecopedagogy for Praxis. Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education.
Misiaszek, G.W. (2025). Beyond-Humans Reinventions for Criticality: Posthumanism to Disrupt the Anthropocene and Solve (Super) Wicked Environmental Problems. Teaching in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2025.2465997
Kester, K., & Misiaszek, G. W. (2025). Four questions for teaching conflict for peace, justice, and sustainability: higher education roles and responsibilities. Teaching in Higher Education, 30(1), 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2443982
Misiaszek, G. W. (2025). Ekopedagoji ve Ekopedagojik Okuryazarlık: Küresel Olarak Herkes İçin Sosyo-Çevresel Adalet ve Gezegen Sürdürülebilirliği İçin Kuram, Uygulama ve Araştırmalar (Ecopedagogy and Ecopedagogical Literacy: Theory, Practice and Research for Globally All-Inclusive Socio-Environmental Justice and Planetary Sustainability). [Ecopedagogy and Ecopedagogical Literacy: Theory, Practice and Research for Globally All-Inclusive Socio-Environmental Justice and Planetary Sustainability]. Eleştirel Pedagoji Dergisi (Journal of Critical Pedagogy), March(77), 78-94. Retrieved from https://elestirelpedagoji.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7.ekopedagoji-ve-ekopedagojik-okuryazarlik.pdf Misiaszek, G. W. (2023). Ecopedagogy: Freirean teaching to disrupt socio-environmental injustices, anthropocentric dominance, and unsustainability of the Anthropocene. Educational Philosophy & Theory, 55(11), 1253-1267. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2022.2130044
Misiaszek, G. W., & Rodrigues, Cae. (2023). Six critical questions for teaching justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 28(1), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2022.2114338
Misiaszek, G. W. (2022). Reinventing: Essence and usefulness of Freire’s work for past 100 years and the next 100 years. Educational Philosophy & Theory, 54(13), 2153-2159. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.2144222
Misiaszek, G. W. (2022). Reinventions as brightly glowing illuminations. Educational Philosophy & Theory. 54(13), 2167-2168. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.2144227
Misiaszek, G. W. (2022). What cultures are being reproduced for higher education success?: A comparative education analysis for socio-environmental justice. International Journal of Educational Research, 116, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102078
Misiaszek, G. W. (2022). An ecopedagogical, ecolinguistical reading of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): What we have learned from Paulo Freire. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54(13), 2297-2311. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2011208
Misiaszek, G. W. (2021). Ecopedagogical literacy of a pandemic: Teaching to critically read the politics of COVID-19 with environmental issues. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52(5), 358-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1981206
Hayes, Aneta, Luckett, Kathy, & Misiaszek, G.W. (2021). Possibilities and complexities of decolonising higher education: critical perspectives on praxis. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(7-8), 887-901. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1971384
Peters, M. A., Jandrić, P., Fuller, S., Means, A. J., Rider, S., Lăzăroiu, G., Hayes, S., Misiaszek, G. W., Tesar, M., McLaren, P. & Barnett, R. (2021). Public intellectuals in the age of viral modernity: An EPAT collective writing project. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2010543
Section in Article: Post-Truthists are not public intellectuals: Critical literacies to counter false postdigital intellectualism
Peters, M. A., Means, A. J., Ericson, D. P., Tukdeo, S., Bradley, J. P. N., Jackson, L., Mu, G. W., Luke, T. W., Misiaszek, G. W. (2021). The China-threat: discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1897573
Section in Article: Teaching to read the Eastern ‘threat’ through critical comparisons, de-Orientalism, and ecologies of knowledges
Misiaszek, G. W. (2021). Editorial: De-distancing ‘us’ from the rest of Earth: ecopedagogical analysis and approaches. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 30(1-2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2021.1880333
Misiaszek, G. W. (2020). Freirean reinvention and hope to construct teaching to save Earth: Ecopedagogy. Creativity and Educational Innovation Review, 4, 53-54. https://doi.org/10.7203/CREATIVITY.4.19333
Misiaszek, G. W. (2020). Countering post-truths through ecopedagogical literacies: Teaching to critically read “development” and “sustainable development”. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(7), 747-758. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1680362
Misiaszek, G. W. (2020). Ecopedagogy: teaching critical literacies of ‘development’, ‘sustainability’, and ‘sustainable development’. Teaching in Higher Education, 25(5), 615-632. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1586668
Peters, M.A., Rizvi, F., McCulloch, G., Gibbs, P., Gorur, R., Hong, M., Hwang, Y., Zipin, L., Brennan, M., Robertson, S., Quay, J., Malbon, J., Taglietti, D., Barnett, R., Wang, C., McLaren, P., Apple, R., Papastephanou, M., Burbules, N., Jackson, L., Jalote, P., Kalantzis, M., Cope, B., Fataar, A., Conroy, J., Misiaszek, G.W., Biesta, G., Jandrić, P., Choo, S., Apple, M., Stone, L., Tierney, R., Tesar, M., Besley, T. & Misiaszek, L.I. (2020). Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1777655
Section in Article: COVID-19 foreshadowing Earth’s environmental tipping point: Education’s transformation needed to avoid the ledge
Misiaszek, G. W. (2020). Reinventing Our Comparisons: De-colonializing, De-alienating Comparative Education for Peace, Justice, and Planetary Sustainability. Beijing International Review of Education, 2(4), 483-490. doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/25902539-02040001
Misiaszek, G. W. (2020). Greg: Response to Lauren. Beijing International Review of Education, 2(4), 499-500. doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/25902539-02040004
Misiaszek, G. W. (2016). Ecopedagogy as an element of citizenship education: The dialectic of global/local spheres of citizenship and critical environmental pedagogies. International Review of Education, 62, pages 587–607. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9587-0
Misiaszek, G. W. & Misiaszek, L. I. (2016) Global Citizenship Education and Ecopedagogy at the Intersections: Asian Perspectives in Comparison. Asian Journal of Education (journal of Seoul National University School of Education), V.17, Special Issue, pp. 11-37. ISSN: 1229-9448. http://hdl.handle.net/10371/110046
Misiaszek, G. W. (2015). Ecopedagogy and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Connections between Environmental and Global Citizenship Education to Save the Planet. European Journal of Education. 50(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12138