{"product_id":"confronting-climate-crises-through-education-9781498535984","title":"Confronting Climate Crises through Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf educators take Rebecca Young’s advice to harness the power of imaginative world-making and empathetic reading, perhaps we have a chance not only to confront climate crisis but to persuade young people to take tangible steps to repair and protect our environment. A first step would be to recover the original sense of empathy, with Einfühlung, a feeling-into the inanimate world upon which we depend. -- Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University\u003cbr\u003eThis book could not be more timely or more necessary. The most important questions the planet faces are changing quickly—all of a sudden, survival and fairness seem at least as crucial as that old standby, 'how can we grow bigger?' That world requires a new pedagogy, one whose outlines this volume helps you sense. -- Bill McKibben, Author of Deep Economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by John Adams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A New Story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Literature and Empathy: A Rationale for Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: A Taker-Leaver Paradigm: Cultural Representations in Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fostering International Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Let’s Share the Table: Building Ecoliterate Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Morality and Environmental Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Franzen’s Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Ecopsychology: Harmonizing Our Paths \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword by David W. Orr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040715669847,"sku":"9781498535984","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498535984.jpg?v=1750947605","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/confronting-climate-crises-through-education-9781498535984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}