Description
Climate 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.
About the Author
Rebecca L. Young serves as a content manager for the nonprofit education organization Cognia and as an advisor for the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme in Language and Literature eAssessment.
Book Information
ISBN 9781666915792
Author Rebecca L. Young
Format Hardback
Page Count 254
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 517g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 157mm * 21mm