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Book SynopsisClimate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university level. The content of this book aims to introduce climate change to classes outside of the sciences, as it will take a wide range of disciplines, broader institutional thinking, and experimentation to fully engage university resources and knowledge toward the mitigation of fossil fuel consumption and adaptation to the negative consequences of climate change. Climate Change across the Curriculum encourages professors to engage salient aspects of their academic disciplines to the study of climate issues in the classroom, as well as sample theories, practices, and resources from a wide range of academic disciplines outside of their own areas of specialization. The contributors ask: what r
Trade ReviewHere is a book, rich in examples and compellingly written, that shows exactly why and how college and universities can tear down their old-fashioned silos to address the great challenge of our time. -- John Calderazzo, Colorado State University
Table of ContentsPart I: Climate Change Across the Curriculum Chapter 1, Writing Across the Curriculum: Lessons and Strategies, Douglass Hesse Chapter 2, Citizen Science and Climate Change, Harry Boyte Chapter 3, Diversity Across the Curriculum: Critical Race and Gender Theory, Geoffrey Batemanis Part II: Teaching Climate Change within Academic Disciplines Chapter 4, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Climate Crisis, Andrew J. Auge Chapter 5, Qualitative Reasoning and Climate Change, Corrine Taylor and Steve Getty Chapter 6, Climate Change and Aristotle, Chelsea C. Harry Chapter 7, Values, Ideology, and Climate Change: A Psychological Perspective, Jeffrey Sinn Chapter 8, Climate Ethics: Toward a Synthesis of Humanist and Posthumanist Thought, Eric J. Fretz Chapter 9, Biology: Place-based Naturephilia, Catherine Kleier Chapter 10, My Past is My Present Is My Future: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Climate Change Discourse, Annamarie Hatcher Chapter 11, Why and How We Teach About Climate Change, Nicole Holthuis, Rachel Lotan, Michael D. Mastrandrea and Jennifer Saltzman, Chapter 12, Teacher Education and Climate Change, K.C. Busch Part III: Voices from the Field Chapter 13, A Relational Approach to Climate Change, Faith Kearns Chapter 14, University-Community Partnerships, John A. Kinch
