Confronting 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.

About the Author
Rebecca Young is language and literature assessment specialist for the Measured Progress and International Baccalaureate organizations.

Reviews
If 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 Einfuhlung, a feeling-into the inanimate world upon which we depend. -- Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University
This 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



Book Information
ISBN 9781498535960
Author Rebecca L. Young
Format Hardback
Page Count 172
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 426g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 159mm * 20mm