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.
| ISBN: | 9781498535984 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2020 |
| Author: | Rebecca L Young, John Adams, David W Orr |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 182 pages |
| Series: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Nature and the natural world: general interest Education Ecological science, the Biosphere |