Confronting Climate Crises through Education
Reading Our Way Forward
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:30th Jun '20
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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.
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 Einfühlung, 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
ISBN: 9781498535984
Dimensions: 220mm x 153mm x 13mm
Weight: 263g
182 pages