Chapter 7: Eco-Diversity at the Margins: Permaculture as an Ecosocial Pedagogy for Social Work

Grounding ecosocial practice concepts in social work curricula remains an ongoing challenge for educators. This chapter explores practical ways social work educators can enable students to critically engage with local-global socio-environmental issues and enact ecosocial practices in a diverse range of social work settings as future practitioners. Conceptually, it draws on the system-based holistic lens of permaculture to offer ecosocial practice narratives for teaching and learning to enrich and deepen social work skills and practices within the ecosocial framework.