Description
Book SynopsisEach 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.
Trade ReviewLiterature as a Lens for Climate Change: Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation is a timely and necessary volume in the field of climate education. Rebecca L. Young has assembled a diverse range of contributors whose ideas about marshalling the power of narrative to teach climate change are both thought-provoking and practical. The chapters foreground the truth that young people today are not just victims of the intergenerational violence of climate change; they are themselves powerful leaders, activists, and storytellers.Yet as this book makes clear, the responsibility is not theirs alone for addressing the climate crisis; it is the responsibility of educators as well. This book then is not just a set of resources but an important call to action.
-- Stephen Siperstein, Choate Rosemary Hall
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Rebecca L. Young
Chapter One“It wasn’t us!”: Teaching about Ecocide and the Systemic Causes of Climate Change
Marek C. Oziewicz
Chapter TwoAmitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy on Climate Change: A Pedagogical Approach to Awakening Student Engagement in Ecocriticism
Suhasini Vincent
Chapter ThreeClimate Crisis Confluence, History, and Social Justice: How Race, Place, Privilege, Past, and Present Flow Together in YA Literature
Anna Bernstein and Kaela Sweeney
Chapter FourStarting Points for Student Inquiry into Our Relationship with the Environment
Ryan Skardal
Chapter FiveForegrounding the Value of Ecocriticism in a South African University Context
David Robinson
Chapter SixThese Are the Forgeries of Jealousy: Nature Out of Balance
Timothy J. Duggan and Natalie Valentín-Espiet
Chapter Seven Raising Environmental Awareness and Rewriting Education Through Haiku
Lorraine Kerslake and María Encarnación Carrillo-García
Chapter Eight Introducing Sustainability Topics with Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and Richard Powers’ “The Seventh Event”
Rachel Cohen and Sarah Wyman
Chapter Nine Developmental Bibliotherapy and Cli-Fi: Helping to Reframe Young People’s Responses to Climate Change
Judith Wakeman
Afterword
Suzanne Keen
