Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward - Paperback

by Rebecca L. Young (Author), John Adams (Foreword by), David W. Orr (Afterword by)

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.

Author Biography

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