Literature as a Lens for Climate Change (eBook, PDF)

Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation
Redaktion: Young, Rebecca L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Each chapter in this collection offers a practical approach for using literature to engage and empower students to confront aspects of climate crises. Educators from different backgrounds and parts of the world share their experience using novels, short stories, drama, poetry, and nonfiction to help students understand the causes and consequences of climate change as well as how they can contribute to potential solutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978758698
• Artikelnr.: 74849616

Autorenporträt

Rebecca L. Young is Language and Literature content specialist for Cognia and the International Baccalaureate Organization.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Introduction
Rebecca L. Young
Chapter One "It wasn't us!": Teaching about Ecocide and the Systemic Causes
of Climate Change
Marek C. Oziewicz
Chapter Two Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy on Climate Change: A Pedagogical
Approach to Awakening Student Engagement in Ecocriticism
Suhasini Vincent
Chapter Three Climate Crisis Confluence, History, and Social Justice: How
Race, Place, Privilege, Past, and Present Flow Together in YA Literature
Anna Bernstein and Kaela Sweeney
Chapter Four Starting Points for Student Inquiry into Our Relationship with
the Environment
Ryan Skardal
Chapter Five Foregrounding the Value of Ecocriticism in a South African
University Context
David Robinson
Chapter Six These 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