Confronting Climate Crises Through Education : Reading Our Way Forward
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| Title: | Confronting Climate Crises Through Education : Reading Our Way Forward |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Rebecca L. Young |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Climatic changes--Study and teaching, Environmental education |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, EDUCATION / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781498535960 9781498535984 9781498535977 9781978799684 |
