Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition

Writing to Save the World
Herausgeber: Lease, Joseph R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses the pressing need to continue the work of bringing sustainability into the college classroom. It provides accounts from a variety of instructors experiences with and best practices for incorporating climate change issues into writing-intensive courses.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781498528825
• ISBN-10: 1498528821
• Artikelnr.: 58412954

Autorenporträt

Edited by Joseph R. Lease - Contributions by Joseph R. Lease; Ron Balthazor; Hill Taylor; Deborah Church Miller; Lindsay Tigue; Kim Waters; Justin Rademaekers; Cheryl Wanko; Matthew R. Martin; Joanne Chu; Lesley Hawkes; Pamela Herron and Abby L. Goode

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Now More Than Ever (Joseph R. Lease)
Chapter 1: Sustainability and Writing: Radishes, Scythes, Thoreau, and
Students (Ron Balthazor)
Chapter 2: Ecotopia Revisited in Image: The Imagined (and Enacted) Peril
and Promise of Portland (Hill Taylor)
Chapter 3: "meanderings to the river": A Sustainable Approach to Teaching
Sustainability in First-Year Composition (Deborah Church Miller, Lindsay
Tigue, and Kim Waters)
Chapter 4: Reflecting on Action & Acting on Reflection: High-Impact
Practices for Transformative Learning in Sustainability (Justin Rademaekers
and Cheryl Wanko)
Chapter 5: Design Thinking and Sustainability Problem Solving:
Reconceptualizing a First-Year, Writing-Intensive Seminar (Joseph R. Lease,
Matthew R. Martin, and Joanne Chu)
Chapter 6: Creating Sustainability through Creativity: Using Creative
Writing to Reframe and Build Connections (Lesley Hawkes)
Chapter 7: East to West-The Interconnectedness of All Things Created
(Pamela Herron)
Chapter 8: "Against Sustainability": And Other Provocations for a
First-Year Writing-Intensive Seminar (Abby L. Goode)
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors