Confronting Climate Crises Through Education - Reading Our Way Forward

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.

Sommario

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
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Info autore

By Rebecca L. Young - Foreword by John Adams - Afterword by David W. Orr

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rebecca L Young, Rebecca L. Young
• Con la collaborazione di: John Adams (Prefazione), David W. Orr (Postfazione)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781498535984
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3598-4
• Pagine: 182
• Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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