Confronting Climate Crises Through Education - Reading Our Way Forward

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by John Adams
Introduction: A New Story
Chapter 1: Literature and Empathy: A Rationale for Change
Chapter 2: A Taker-Leaver Paradigm: Cultural Representations in Contemporary Fiction
Chapter 3: Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fostering International Perspectives
Chapter 4: Let's Share the Table: Building Ecoliterate Communities
Chapter 5: Morality and Environmental Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Franzen's Freedom
Chapter 6: Ecopsychology: Harmonizing Our Paths
Afterword by David W. Orr
Bibliography

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rebecca Young is language and literature assessment specialist for the Measured Progress and International Baccalaureate organizations.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rebecca L Young, Rebecca L. Young
• Mitarbeit: John Adams (Vorwort), David W. Orr (Nachwort)
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781498535984
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3598-4
• Seiten: 182
• Serien: Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; EDUCATION / General, NATURE / General, Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, natural history, Literature: history & criticism, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy