Literature as a Lens for Climate Change
Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:3rd Mar '22
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
Literature as a Lens for Climate Change: Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation is a timely and necessary volume in the field of climate education. Rebecca L. Young has assembled a diverse range of contributors whose ideas about marshalling the power of narrative to teach climate change are both thought-provoking and practical. The chapters foreground the truth that young people today are not just victims of the intergenerational violence of climate change; they are themselves powerful leaders, activists, and storytellers.Yet as this book makes clear, the responsibility is not theirs alone for addressing the climate crisis; it is the responsibility of educators as well. This book then is not just a set of resources but an important call to action.
-- Stephen Siperstein, Choate RosemaryISBN: 9781498594110
Dimensions: 236mm x 165mm x 21mm
Weight: 531g
270 pages