Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition - Writing to Save the World

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.

List of contents

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 Other Provocations for a First-Year Writing-Intensive Seminar (Abby L. Goode)

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph R. Lease
• Assisted by: Joseph R. Lease (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781498528849
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2884-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, natural history, Literature: history & criticism, Conservation of the environment, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism