Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition

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

• Broschiertes 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.

Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9781498528849
• ISBN-10: 1498528848
• Artikelnr.: 63627424

Autorenporträt

Joseph R. Lease is associate professor and department chair of English at Wesleyan College.

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