Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Vasko, Z. (2025). Thinking with and through Forests: Noticing Loss around and within. In Rousell, D., Hill, C., Ryan, J., Harvey, M., Barns, S., Aleksic, J. & Boadu, G. (Eds.), Critical Forest Studies: Seeding a new field from underground to overstory. [Special Issue]. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. (In press).
Vasko, Z. (2024). On being part of an ecological community: Relational ways of being and classroom dialogue as foundations for ecological sensitivity and response-ability. Holistic Education Review. 4 (2) 1-17.
Vasko, Z. (2021). Visiting, attending and receiving: Making kin with local woods. In Lasczik, L., Rousell, D., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (Eds.), Walking as a radical and critical art of inquiry: Embodiment, place and entanglement [Special Issue]. International Journal for Education through Art, 17 (1) 45-53.
Vasko, Z. (2020). Inner and outer weather: Creative practice as contemplative ecological inquiry. In Hunter, A.C. (Ed.), Our creative selves: Understanding perceptions of creativity in learning and teaching [Special Issue], PRISM: Casting new light on learning, theory and practice 3 (1), 40-52.
Vasko, Z. (2020) Intimate dialogue: coming to know an ecology through contemplative drawing practice. In Zuk, B. (Ed.), Art and Ecology [Special Issue]. Journal of the BC Art Teachers Association 61 (2), 4-13.
Vasko, Z. (2015), Connections between Artistic Practice and Experiences in Nature: Considerations for how Art Education Can Engender Ecological Awareness. Canadian Review of Art Education, 42(2), 69–79.
Vasko, Z. (2007), The Arts and the Authentic Learner, SFU Educational Review, 2006.
Book Chapters
Vasko, Z. (2025). Rethinking sacrifice and making space for the sacred: Artful conversations with local plants. In Handlarski, D., Hill, L., Pendleton Jiminez, K., & Young, K. (Eds.), Arts-Based Research and the Anthropocene: Principles, Portraits and Pedagogies. Brill. (In press).
Owens, D., Jung, J., Neilson, A., Parrain, C., Reeves, N., Vasko, Z., & Zhou Rosengard, S. (2025). Creative responses to ecological anxiety: Toward collective radical hope. In Handlarski, D., Hill, L., Pendleton Jiminez, K., & Young, K. (Eds.), Arts-Based Research and the Anthropocene: Principles, Portraits and Pedagogies. Brill. (In press).
Smith, R & Vasko, Z (2018). Drawing meaning from nature: observation, symbols and stories. In D. Zandvliet (Ed.), Culture/Environment: Weaving new connections. Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Other Publications
Vasko, Z. (2021). Root shadows. In Cant, A. (Ed.) Everyday Artistries [Special Issue], Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies, School of Education and Childhood Studies, Capilano University. https://journals.sfu.ca/jcp/index.php/jcp/article/view/79/101
Vasko, Z. (2019). Imagining our way into the lives of other beings in our ecosystems. ImaginED, Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education (CIRCE). https://www.educationthatinspires.ca/2019/05/10/imagining-our-way-into- the-lives-of-other-beings-in-our-ecosystems/
About the Teacher (contributing author), in Global Citizenship in Teaching and Learning, Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, University of British Columbia, 2008
Havelkova, J. (1999). Bedrich Grunzweig: Between Heaven and Earth (Z. Vasko, Trans). Prague: Kovalam
Poetry
Vasko, Z. (2022). “Breathe In”. In Abbot, A. and Toohey-Wiese L. (Eds.) Fire Season II. Fireseason.org, p. 69.
Vasko, Z. (2017). “Alouette River Dyke, July”. First Place, Pandora’s Collective Poetry Contest