Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education (eBook)

Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson (Herausgeber)

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2018
186 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3108-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The book provides innovative pedagogical approaches and instructional tools for educators to inspire, motivate, and lead students to take active steps toward environmental respect, sustainability, and preservation.

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The commitment to participate in ecological protection has grown considerably and, in the academic world, it has been tackled primarily by the Social Sciences. The Humanities has followed suit and several books have dealt with the reasons why such commitment is essential and morally imperative. What has been crucially lacking, however, are books that propose concrete pedagogical approaches to the study of environmental issues and aim at inspiring and motivating both educators and students to become actively engaged in the pursuit of ecological preservation. It is here that this book comes into play. Faced with the polluting of the earth, the devastating effect of climate change, and the inequalities of North/South resources to counter the throes of environmental degradation, our responsibility as educators and in particular as eco-pedagogues is to engage in theoretical discourses on the subject matter but also to begin to provide practitioners in all fields with essential tools to shape an ecological sense of consciousness among future leaders of the earth: our students.

Autor

Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson is associate professor of French and francophone literatures at Kennesaw State University.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1. Knowing Our Place. Teaching World Literature and Environmental Issues Monika GiacoppeChapter 2. The Language of Italian Food and the Flavors of Sustainability: Think Globally,Act LocallySimona MuratoreChapter 3. Communication, Culture and Cuisine: Teaching Sustainability through Food in an Undergraduate Language CurriculumGisela Hoecherl-Alden and Jennifer PetersonChapter 4. Weaving Gender and the Environment in a Team-taught Ecofeminism CourseLaura Davis and Elizabeth GiddensChapter 5. The Germination of Ecological Literacy in a Third World NationRina Garcia ChuaChapter 6. Using Active and Applied Pedagogies to Develop Sustainably Minded Citizens in GeographyVanessa Slinger-FriedmanChapter 7. Walking, We Ask Questions: Experiential Learning and Environmental HumanitiesChristina Gerhardt

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Rina Garcia Chua, Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson, Laura Davis, Christina Gerhardt, Monika Giacoppe, Elizabeth Giddens, Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Simona Muratore, Jennifer Peterson, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Art-Based Ecopedagogy • Ecocritcal Theory • Ecocriticism • Ecological consciousness • Ecological literacy • Ecopedagogy • Ecopoetry • Environmental education • Environmental Studies • Experiential Learning • Food Studies • Greening Curriculum • higher education • Meta drama • Pedagogy • Team Teaching
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3108-3 / 1498531083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3108-5 / 9781498531085