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This collection offers practical approaches to using literature as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and reflections to urge educators at all levels to prepare students for the challenges of a climate-changed world.
List of contents
Introduction
Rebecca L. Young
Chapter One"It wasn't us!": Teaching about Ecocide and the Systemic Causes of Climate Change
Marek C. Oziewicz
Chapter TwoAmitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy on Climate Change: A Pedagogical Approach to Awakening Student Engagement in Ecocriticism
Suhasini Vincent
Chapter ThreeClimate Crisis Confluence, History, and Social Justice: How Race, Place, Privilege, Past, and Present Flow Together in YA Literature
Anna Bernstein and Kaela Sweeney
Chapter FourStarting Points for Student Inquiry into Our Relationship with the Environment
Ryan Skardal
Chapter FiveForegrounding the Value of Ecocriticism in a South African University Context
David Robinson
Chapter SixThese Are the Forgeries of Jealousy: Nature Out of Balance
Timothy J. Duggan and Natalie Valentín-Espiet
Chapter Seven Raising Environmental Awareness and Rewriting Education Through Haiku
Lorraine Kerslake and María Encarnación Carrillo-García
Chapter Eight Introducing Sustainability Topics with Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and Richard Powers' "The Seventh Event"
Rachel Cohen and Sarah Wyman
Chapter Nine Developmental Bibliotherapy and Cli-Fi: Helping to Reframe Young People's Responses to Climate Change
Judith Wakeman
Afterword
Suzanne Keen
About the author
Rebecca L. Young is content specialist at Cognia and chief examiner for the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme in Language and Literature.
Summary
This collection offers practical approaches to using literature as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and reflections to urge educators at all levels to prepare students for the challenges of a climate-changed world.
