Description
Book SynopsisClimate 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, horror 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 provide entry points for investigating particular aspects of climate science, including the local and global impacts of a warming planet. Each chapter provides analysis and strategies for fostering climate (and space) literacy through knowledge, empathy, and agency. The contributors encourage educators to answer students’ calls for comprehensive K–12 climate education by aligning pedagogy with real-world challenges to prepare students who understand the myriad injustices of the climate crisis and feel empowered to confront them. Contributors from around the world share their own stories and urge educators to join the growing, hopeful movement for action, classroom by classroom.
Table of ContentsContents
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
