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.

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Weitere Verfasser:	Young, Rebecca L. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lanham Lexington Books 2022
Schlagworte:	Englischunterricht Klimaänderung > Motiv
Zusammenfassung:	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. Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: "It Wasn't Us!": Teaching about Ecocide and the Systemic Causes of Climate Change -- Teaching Climate Literacy -- "It Was Just a Few Bad People!" -- If It's the System, Is Anyone Responsible at All? -- Producerism -- Extractivist Economy -- Fungibility -- On Personal Responsibility and the World the Rich (Un)Made -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy on Climate Change: A Pedagogical Approach to Awakening Student Engagement in Ecocriticism -- Introduction: Exploring the Writer's Lived Experience -- Mining and Recasting Childhood Stories for the Fictional Ground -- Figuring the Material Lay of the Land and Mining the Arts for Material Gain -- Exploiting India for Material Gain -- The Opium Triangular Trade of the British East India Company -- Privatization and the Dynamics of Power Politics -- Encouraging Social and Environmental Advocacy in Literature -- Establishing a Green Paradigm through an Eco-narrative -- Fighting against Dams in the Name of Greater Common Good -- Conclusion: Making the Material Turn -- Eco-narrative versus Eco-materialism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Climate Crisis Confluence, History, and Social Justice: How Race, Place, Privilege, Past, and Present Flow Together in YA Literature -- Climate Fiction Literature Circles: Purpose -- YA Climate Fiction Text Study #1: Dry by Jarrod Shusterman and Neal Shusterman -- Reading Dry to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis -- Reading Dry to Explore Climate Crisis "Form" -- Pairing Nonfiction Texts with Dry -- YA Climate Fiction Text Study #2: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline -- Reading The Marrow Thieves to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis.
Beschreibung:	xiii, 255 Seiten
ISBN:	9781498594110