Poetry and Sustainability in Education
Beschreibung:
Sandra Lee Kleppe
is Professor of English-language literature at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. She is author of The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current and co-editor/co-author of Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century and Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan: Disciplines, Classrooms, Contexts.
Angela Sorby
has published three volumes of poetry in addition to Schoolroom Poets: Poetry, Pedagogy, and Daily Life in America; An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup; and Poetry and Pedagogy Across the Lifespan, co-edited with Sandra Kleppe. She is Professor of English/Creative Writing at Marquette University.
This edited collection offers educators at all levels a range of practical and theoretical approaches to teaching poetry in the context of environmental sustainability. The contributors are keenly aware of the urgency facing the planet's ecosystems-ecosystems which include all of us-and this volume makes the case that teaching poetry is not a luxury. Each of the book's three sections works from a specific angle and register. Part I focuses on pragmatic approaches to classroom activities and curricular choices; Part II considers policies and politics, including the role of the UN's Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) program; and Part III takes a widescreen view, exploring the philosophical issues that arise when poems are integrated into sustainability curricula. This book exemplifies how poetry empowers readers to think imaginatively about how to sustain-and why to sustain-our world, its resources, and its beauty.