Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition

Writing to Save the World

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2884-9 (ISBN)

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This volume addresses the pressing need to continue the work of bringing sustainability into the college classroom. It provides accounts from a variety of instructors experiences with and best practices for incorporating climate change issues into writing-intensive courses.

Now more than ever—in a time when Americans still do not believe that humans are the primary cause of Earth's climate change crisis, the burden on educators to inform, challenge, and motivate students about sustainability is greater than it ever has been. On college campuses, writing intensive courses, often located within First-Year or General Education curricula, are an ideal place to take up this charge because of the flexibility of their content and the high volume of students that they reach. In this volume, a varied group of composition instructors with wide ranges and types of experiences provides best practices for bringing issues surrounding climate change into the writing classroom. From literature-based composition and creative writing courses to design thinking workshops to seminars "against sustainability," the authors in this volume lay out a multitude of possibilities for blending writing and environmental concerns that fellow practitioners can easily adopt or modify for their own use.

Joseph R. Lease is associate professor and department chair of English at Wesleyan College.

Introduction: Now More Than Ever (Joseph R. Lease)
Chapter 1: Sustainability and Writing: Radishes, Scythes, Thoreau, and Students (Ron Balthazor)
Chapter 2: Ecotopia Revisited in Image: The Imagined (and Enacted) Peril and Promise of Portland (Hill Taylor)
Chapter 3: “meanderings to the river”: A Sustainable Approach to Teaching Sustainability in First-Year Composition (Deborah Church Miller, Lindsay Tigue, and Kim Waters)
Chapter 4: Reflecting on Action & Acting on Reflection: High-Impact Practices for Transformative Learning in Sustainability (Justin Rademaekers and Cheryl Wanko)
Chapter 5: Design Thinking and Sustainability Problem Solving: Reconceptualizing a First-Year, Writing-Intensive Seminar (Joseph R. Lease, Matthew R. Martin, and Joanne Chu)
Chapter 6: Creating Sustainability through Creativity: Using Creative Writing to Reframe and Build Connections (Lesley Hawkes)
Chapter 7: East to West—The Interconnectedness of All Things Created (Pamela Herron)
Chapter 8: “Against Sustainability”: And

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Joseph R. Lease, Ron Balthazor, Hill Taylor, Deborah Church Miller
Zusatzinfo	2 b/w illustrations; 9 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 230 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-4985-2884-8 / 1498528848
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-2884-9 / 9781498528849
Zustand	Neuware