Confronting Climate Crises through Education (eBook)

Reading Our Way Forward

Rebecca L. Young (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
182 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3597-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward examines ways fiction and non-fiction can shape an instructional lens designed to witness the environmental crises we face both culturally and globally while fostering a more ecologically conscious, globally-minded student body prepared to confront them.

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Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central organizing principle of curriculum and assessment design. Each chapter outlines ways literature can serve as a cultural lens for examining the complex patterns of contexts behind our most pressing climate concerns, including potential solutions these patterns may illuminate. A focus on fiction and non-fiction exemplars that can provide such a lens illustrates practical steps educators can take to develop instruction around the immediately relevant environmental crises we are experiencing and to inspire more ecologically conscious, globally-minded problem-solvers prepared to confront them.

Autor

Rebecca Youngis language and literature assessment specialist for Measured Progress and the International Baccalaureate Organization.

Inhalt

Foreword by John AdamsIntroduction: A New StoryChapter 1: Literature and Empathy: A Rationale for ChangeChapter 2: A Taker-Leaver Paradigm: Cultural Representations in Contemporary FictionChapter 3: Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fostering International PerspectivesChapter 4: Let’s Share the Table: Building Ecoliterate CommunitiesChapter 5: Morality and Environmental Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Franzen’s FreedomChapter 6: Ecopsychology: Harmonizing Our Paths Afterword by David W. OrrBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Nachwort: David W. Orr
• Vorwort: John Adams
• 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: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: climate change • climate crisis education • Climate Education • climate fiction • Ecocritical reading • ecocrtitical theory • ecocrtiticism • ecoliteracy • Ecoliterate Communities • ecoliterature • Ecological consciousness • Ecopedagogy • ecopsychology • Education • Environmental education • Environmental education reform • Environmental Literature • Environmental Responsibility • Environmental Studies • Literary Studies • Literature and Climate • Teaching • Teaching Climate Change
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3597-6 / 1498535976
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3597-7 / 9781498535977