Literature As a Lens for Climate Change

Rebecca L. Young

doi:10.5771/9781498594127

Summary

Each chapter in this collection offers a practical approach for using literature to engage and empower students to confront aspects of climate crises. Educators from different backgrounds and parts of the world share their experience using novels, short stories, drama, poetry, and nonfiction to help students understand the causes and consequences of climate change as well as how they can contribute to potential solutions.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-9411-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-9412-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 256
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1. Teaching Climate Literacy No access
2. “It Was Just a Few Bad People!” No access
3. 1. Producerism No access
  2. Extractivist Economy No access
  3. Fungibility No access
  4. On Personal Responsibility and the World the Rich (Un)Made No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. 1. Mining and Recasting Childhood Stories for the Fictional Ground No access
  2. 1. Exploiting India for Material Gain No access
    2. The Opium Triangular Trade of the British East India Company No access
    3. Privatization and the Dynamics of Power Politics No access
2. 1. 1. Fighting against Dams in the Name of Greater Common Good No access
3. 1. Eco-narrative versus Eco-materialism No access
4. Notes No access
5. References No access
1. 1. 1. Reading Dry to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis No access
    2. Reading Dry to Explore Climate Crisis “Form” No access
    3. Pairing Nonfiction Texts with Dry No access
  2. 1. Reading The Marrow Thieves to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis No access
    2. Reading The Marrow Thieves to Explore Climate Crisis “Form” No access
    3. Pairing Nonfiction Texts with The Marrow Thieves No access
  3. 1. Reading Not a Drop to Drink to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis No access
    2. Reading Not a Drop to Drink to Explore Climate Crisis “Form” No access
    3. Pairing Nonfiction Texts with Not a Drop to Drink No access
2. Community Action No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. References No access
1. Notes No access
2. References No access
1. Education Policy and the National Curriculum Documents No access
2. The Lived Experience of South Africans and the Matter of the Environment No access
3. The Theoretical Perspectives No access
4. Student Responses No access
5. Considering John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. 1. Part One: Shakespeare’s Text No access
  2. Part Two: Informational Texts No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. Notes No access
4. References No access
1. Toward a Humanistic Approach to Language Teaching: Global Education and the Role of Literature No access
2. 1. Haiku in Language Instruction No access
3. The Poetry Reading Project: Writing Haiku, Nature, and Environmental Education No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. 1. Ursula Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” No access
  2. Richard Power’s “The Seventh Event” No access
2. 1. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” as an Allegory for Teaching Sustainability Topics No access
  2. “The Seventh Event” as a Literary Model of Systems Thinking for Sustainability No access
3. Notes No access
4. References No access
1. Teaching Climate Change Without Creating Despair or Entrenching Denial No access
2. 1. The Psychology of Denial No access
3. 1. 1. Enabling Conversations No access
    2. Using Cli-Fi as a Conversation Starter No access
    3. Imagining the Future No access
4. 1. Activating the DMN No access
  2. Cultivating Core Confidence No access
  3. Demystifying Mental Illness No access
  4. Reframing Responses to Climate Change No access
5. 1. Trusted Authors of YA Fiction No access
  2. Encouraging Reflection No access
  3. Librarians as Trusted Adults No access
  4. Reading Provides Lifelong Benefits No access
6. Developmental Bibliotherapy, Cli-Fi, and Dissent No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
Afterword No access Pages 239 - 242
Index No access Pages 243 - 250
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 251 - 256