Rebecca L. Young

Confronting Climate Crises through Education (eBook, ePUB)

Reading Our Way Forward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498535977
• Artikelnr.: 56800072

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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