Description
Book SynopsisThis edited collection offers educators at all levels a range of practical and theoretical approaches to teaching poetry in the context of environmental sustainability. The contributors are keenly aware of the urgency facing the planet’s ecosystems—ecosystems which include all of us—and this volume makes the case that teaching poetry is not a luxury. Each of the book’s three sections works from a specific angle and register. Part I focuses on pragmatic approaches to classroom activities and curricular choices; Part II considers policies and politics, including the role of the UN’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) program; and Part III takes a widescreen view, exploring the philosophical issues that arise when poems are integrated into sustainability curricula. This book exemplifies how poetry empowers readers to think imaginatively about how to sustain—and why to sustain—our world, its resources, and its beauty.
Table of ContentsPART I: LEARNING WITH THE BIOSPHERE: BIRDS, BEES, FLOWERS AND TREES
Chapter 1. Birdsong, Poetry and Sustainability in Education
Chapter 2. “Hanging on for the Bees”: Teaching with Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems
Chapter 3. “These Things Never Happened but Are Always”: Why Tree Poems Matter
Chapter 4. Listening to Animals for a Change. On Teaching Animal Poetry from a Critical Rhetorical Perspective
Chapter 5. Indigenous Poetry and Sustainability: Troubling Anthropocene Logic through Kinship, Wholeness and Care
PART II: POETIC LITERACY AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 6. Poetic Learning for a Sustainable Future: Transforming Our Collective
Chapter 7. "Whose Action Is No Stronger than a Flower?”: Poetry, Education and Environmental Crisis
Chapter 8. First World War Poetry and Historical Literacy
Chapter 9. Ecopoetry, Pedagogical Encounters and Holding Absence Present: Ideas for Classrooms
PART III: POETS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND THE PLANET
Chapter 10. Towards a Pedagogy of The Transversal: Using Félix Guattari’s Ecosophical Aesthetics for Teaching Poetry
Chapter 11. “Right has just left”: Learning from Concurrency and the Experiential Aspect of the Ongoing in Cia Rinne’s Poetic Work
Chapter 12. The Message of Poetry or Poetry as Messenger: The Poetics of Sustainability in the Pedagogical Context
Chapter 13. Towards a Sustainable Imagination: Reflections on Olav H. Hauge and the Teaching of Poetry
