Overview

Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today’s students—climate fiction and protest poetry, fiction and documentary films, video games and social media. The stories are used as exemplars, from exploring space debris to urban design planning to fast fashion, and they provide entry points for investigating particular aspects of climate science, including the local and global impacts of a warming planet. Each chapter provides analyses and strategies for fostering climate (and space) literacy through knowledge, empathy, and agency. Contributors from around the world encourage educators to answer students’ calls for comprehensive K–12 climate education by aligning pedagogy with real-world challenges in order to prepare students who understand the myriad injustices of the climate crisis and feel empowered to confront them. They share their own stories and urge educators to join the growing, hopeful movement for action, classroom by classroom.

Full Product Details

Author:   Rebecca L. Young ,  Beverly B. Bachelder ,  Robert S. Bachelder ,  Karen Ball
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9781666915792

ISBN 10:   1666915793
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   18 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Reading the Youth Climate Movement: Social Media, Literary Creation, and Allyship Alexandra Lakind Chapter 2: “But, What Difference Can I Make?”: Using Documentaries to Explore Environmental Advocacy in the Face of Climate Change Carley Peterson Durden and Jared Durden Chapter 3: Educating Space-Age Environmentalists at the Elementary Level Beverly B. Bachelder and Robert S. Bachelder Chapter 4: Teaching Environmental Respect to Young Learners: Video Games as Environmental Texts Erden El Chapter 5: A City for the Future: Designing Socially Just, Sustainable Urban Environments with Elementary Students Alexandra Laing Chapter 6: Fostering Environmentalism and Activism in Students: Plastic Pollution as a Starting Point Karen Ball and Elke DeVries Chapter 7: Ecohorror, Terrorism, and Inadequate Representation of Global Warming in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening Tatiana Konrad Chapter 8: The Global Impact of Fast Fashion: Understanding Sustainability and Social Justice Issues Helen Liu and Alyssa Racco Chapter 9: Making the Material Turn: A Pedagogical Approach on Postcolonial, Social, and Ecological Issues in Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy’s Essays and Fiction Suhasini Vincent Chapter 10: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences: Interdisciplinary Climate Change Instruction and Assessment Mary-Alice Corliss and Rebecca L. Young Afterword Vandana Singh About the Contributors

Reviews

"""I am overjoyed and grateful that this book exists. Hope is the animating force behind Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling. This rich, vital collection shares creative approaches to developing critical climate literacy and is especially laudable for highlighting the activism and voices of young people. Climate Change Education offers various pathways for educators and students who wish to work toward a healthy, just world where all life can thrive."""

I am overjoyed and grateful that this book exists. Hope is the animating force behind Climate Change in Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling. This rich, vital collection shares creative approaches to developing critical climate literacy, and is especially laudable for highlighting the activism and voices of young people. Climate Change in Education offers various pathways for educators and students who wish to work toward a healthy, just world where all life can thrive.--Lara Saguisag, New York University

Author Information

Rebecca L. Young serves as a content manager for the nonprofit education organization Cognia and as an advisor for the International Baccalaureate’s Middle Years Programme in Language and Literature eAssessment.

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