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Confronting Climate Crises through Education Rebecca L. Young

Confronting Climate Crises through Education By Rebecca L. Young

Confronting Climate Crises through Education by Rebecca L. Young


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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.

Confronting Climate Crises through Education Summary

Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward by Rebecca L. Young

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.

Confronting Climate Crises through Education Reviews

If educators take Rebecca Young's advice to harness the power of imaginative world-making and empathetic reading, perhaps we have a chance not only to confront climate crisis but to persuade young people to take tangible steps to repair and protect our environment. A first step would be to recover the original sense of empathy, with Einfuhlung, a feeling-into the inanimate world upon which we depend. -- Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University
This book could not be more timely or more necessary. The most important questions the planet faces are changing quickly-all of a sudden, survival and fairness seem at least as crucial as that old standby, 'how can we grow bigger?' That world requires a new pedagogy, one whose outlines this volume helps you sense. -- Bill McKibben, Author of Deep Economy

About Rebecca L. Young

Rebecca Youngis language and literature assessment specialist for Measured Progress and the International Baccalaureate Organization.

Table of Contents

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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NLS9781498535984
9781498535984
1498535984
Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward by Rebecca L. Young
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2020-06-30
182
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