Literature as a Lens for Climate Change

Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation

Rebecca L. Young

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978758698
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Biological Sciences

Each 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: “It Wasn’t Us!”: Teaching about Ecocide and the Systemic Causes of Climate Change
• Chapter 2: Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy on Climate Change: A Pedagogical Approach to Awakening Student Engagement in Ecocriticism
• Chapter 3: Climate Crisis Confluence, History, and Social Justice: How Race, Place, Privilege, Past, and Present Flow Together in YA Literature
• Chapter 4: Starting Points for Student Inquiry into Our Relationship with the Environment
• Chapter 5: Foregrounding the Value of Ecocriticism in a South African University Context
• Chapter 6: These Are the Forgeries of Jealousy: Nature Out of Balance
• Chapter 7: Raising Environmental Awareness and Language Acquisition through Haiku
• Chapter 8: Introducing Sustainability Topics with Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and Richard Powers’s “The Seventh Event”
• Chapter 9: Developmental Bibliotherapy and Cli-Fi: Helping to Reframe Young People’s Responses to Climate Change
• Afterword
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors