| Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward Contributor(s): Young, Rebecca L. (Author), Adams, John (Foreword by), Orr, David W. (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1498535968 ISBN-13: 9781498535960 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $109.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Education | Aims & Objectives - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology |
| Dewey: 370.115 |
| LCCN: 2018955894 |
| Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 172 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |