Engaging with Environmental Education through the Language Arts

This creative volume demonstrates the urgent importance of engaging students cognitively and affectively with the climate crisis and environmental education, underpinning the vital role the language arts play in expanding this engagement for a better future.

Autorentext

Nicholas McGuinn is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Education, University of York, UK.

Amanda Naylor is Senior Lecturer in English and Education, University of York, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part 1: Opening up the Debate

Chapter 1 Environmental texts in the classroom: The centrality of ecocritical reading

Chapter 2 Fostering Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Collective Action through Children's and Young Adult Literature

Chapter 3 Humanising Science through the Arts

Chapter 4 Imagining the Environment in a Different, More Hopeful Language: (Foreign) Language Teaching with Environmental Issues and Sustainability

Part 2: Thinking about Voice

Chapter 5 Voicing More-Than-Human Vulnerability: A Lyric Approach to Fostering Biodiversity Loss Literacy

Chapter 6 Philosophical Dialogue in Ecoliteracy Education: Words for Change

Part 3: Creating and Responding to Texts

Chapter 7 "Reading-With" to Build Meaningful Connections with Animate Place-based Literacies

Chapter 8 Environmental education in international contexts: exploring issues through literature

Chapter 9 Pre-Service English Teachers engage with the natural world through poetry: A cubed template to document the plains of the unknown world

Chapter 10 What can storytelling and drama offer to students' ecological understanding and citizenship? Being trees

Chapter 11 Socio-Environmental (In)Justice In Forest Stewardship: a multi-perspective materials assemblage for English as a Foreign Language teacher education in Chile

Part 4: Engaging with Visual and Social Media

Chapter 12 The Visual Image and Imagination of Alternative Futures: Nuance, Ambiguity, and Hope

Chapter 13 Engaging young people with ecocritical analysis of language in the media

Conclusion