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This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency.
List of contents
Foreword: A Scientist's Perspective Introduction - Living the Contradictions: Theatre and the Arts as Deep, Life-sustaining Frameworks for Climate Education on an Exhausted Planet; Part 1: Local Engagements and Encounters 1. Building a Global Ensemble as Alternative Education for the Climate Emergency: Theatre Pedagogies for Activating Artist-citizens in Tkarón:to/Toronto 2. Esperanza Ambiental: Cultivating Environmental Hope in Bogotá through Pedagogies of Humility and Risk 3. Engaging Youth with the Climate Crisis: Playful Tactics for Dialogue and Devising in Coventry 4. Unravelling Narratives of Climate Change, Gender and Livelihood in Lucknow: An Ecofeminist Perspective 5. Towards a Glocalized Critical Sensory Pedagogy: Explorations of Heavy Industry and Climate (In)justice in Kaohsiung 6. The Tacit Knowledge of Environmental Experience: Theatre, Cultural Reckonings, and ‘Publicing’ in Greece 7. The Digital Dilemma: Navigating Place, Space, Relationships and Possibilities in Global Youth-based Climate Education Research; Part 2: Pedagogical and Artistic Innovations 8. Beyond the Public Service Announcement: Navigating Hard Facts and Dissident Feelings in the Climate Emergency through Verbatim Theatre 9. Performative Pedagogies and Creative Courage: Building New Worlds during the COVID-19 Pandemic 10. Exploring Resistance and Acceptance at the Threshold of the Future: Speculative Fiction and Human Desires 11. Virtual, Sonic Drama as Climate Crisis Pedagogy: Listening to the Environment to Better Understand our Place in the World 12. Fiction and Embodiment as Gateways to Explore Posthuman Togetherness 13. Provoking 'Eco-gladness': Movement across Four Drama Pedagogies 14. Attending to Settler-colonial and Indigenous Histories in Tkaronto/Toronto: ‘Being in Common’ and Acknowledging Land through Site-specific Performance; Afterword: Gifts from Locality
About the author
Kathleen Gallagher is Director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Distinguished Professor. Gallagher studies theatre as a powerful medium for expression by young people of their experiences and understandings.
Christine Balt is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research takes place at the intersection of theatre, pedagogy, ecology, and collective well-being in the lives of young people living in cities.
Summary
This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency.
