Literature as a lens for climate change : using narratives to prepare the next generation /

This collection offers practical approaches to using literature as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and reflections to urge educators at all levels to prepare students for the challenges of a climate-changed world.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Young, Rebecca L. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022].
Subjects:	Climatic changes in literature. Climatic changes > Study and teaching. Environmental education. Environmental responsibility > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

"It wasn't us!" : teaching about ecocide and the systemic causes of climate change / Marek C. Oziewicz
Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy on climate change : a pedagogical approach to awakening student engagement in ecocriticism / Suhasini Vincent
Climate crisis confluence, history, and social justice : how race, place, privilege, past, and present flow together in YA literature / Anna Bernstein and Kaela Sweeney
Starting points for student inquiry into our relationship with the environment / Ryan Skardal
Foregrounding the value of ecocriticism in a South African university context / David Robinson
These are the forgeries of jealousy : nature out of balance / Timothy J. Duggan and Natalie Valentín-Espiet
Raising environmental awareness and language acquisition through haiku / Lorraine Kerslake and María Encarnación Carrillo-García
Introducing sustainability topics with Ursula Le Guin's "The ones who walk away from Omelas" and Richard Powers's "The seventh event" / Rachel Cohen and Sarah Wyman
Developmental bibliotherapy and cli-fi : helping to reframe young people's responses to climate change / Judith Wakeman
Afterword.