Confronting Climate Crises Through Education: Reading Our Way Forward

By Rebecca L. Young

Book Overview

Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central organizing principle of curriculum and assessment design. Each chapter outlines ways literature can serve as a cultural lens for examining the complex patterns of contexts behind our most pressing climate concerns, including potential solutions these patterns may illuminate. A focus on fiction and non-fiction exemplars that can provide such a lens illustrates practical steps educators can take to develop instruction around the immediately relevant environmental crises we are experiencing and to inspire more ecologically conscious, globally-minded problem-solvers prepared to confront them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498535984
• ISBN13: 9781498535984
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"