Literature as a Lens for Climate Change
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Beschreibung:
This collection offers practical approaches to using literature as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and reflections to urge educators at all levels to prepare students for the challenges of a climate-changed world.
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.
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