Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cutter-Mackenzie, Amy; Reid, Alan; Payne, Phillip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection brings together international research-based chapters to explore the role of children's literature in learning about environments and places, with a focus on how it may inform and enrich our imagination, experiences and responses to environmental challenges and injustice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317979456
• Artikelnr.: 41067575

Autorenporträt

Amy Cutter-Mackenzie is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests focus on children's and teachers' thinking and experiences in environmental education in a range of contexts and spaces (including schools, garden spaces, teacher education, higher education, outdoor education, children's literature, research and early years settings). She is the editor of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education. Phillip Payne joined Monash University, Australia, in early 2006 as the Course Director of Sport and Outdoor Recreation and Research Leader of the Movement, Environment and Community (MEC) group. He is an international editorial board member for Environmental Education Research, Journal of Environmental Education, and Australian Journal of Environmental Education. He has published and presented approximately 100 academic papers. Alan Reid is a Senior Lecturer in Education and member of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath, UK. He coordinates doctoral programmes in research methods in education, and teaches on undergraduate and graduate programmes in environmental education, technologies and learning, and research methods. His research interests focus on teachers' thinking and practice in environmental education, and policy-related, methodological and philosophical issues in environmental education theory, research and practice. Recent co-edited publications include Participation and Learning: Perspectives on Education and the environment, health and sustainability (2008) and Researching education and the environment: retrospect and prospect (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's
Literature Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Philip Payne, and Alan Reid 1. Through
Green Eyes: Complex Visual Culture and Post-Literacy Sidney Dobrin 2.
Re-searching and re-storying the complex and complicated relationship of
biophilia and bibliophilia Heesoon Bai, Daniela Elza, Peter Kovacs and
Serenna Romanycia 3. Remarkable-tracking, experiential education of the
ecological imagination Philip Payne 4. Children's literature as a
springboard to place-based embodied learning Linda Wason-Ellam 5. The
Stories are the people and the land: Three educators respond to
environmental teachings in Indigenous children's literature Lisa Korteweg,
Ismel Gonzales, and JoJo Guillet 6. What's there, what if, what then and
what can we do? An Immersive and Embodied Experience of Environment and
Place through Children's Literature Geraldine Burke and Amy
Cutter-Mackenzie 7. Exploring instructional strategies to develop
prospective elementary teacher children's literature book evaluation skills
for science, ecology and environmental education Bill Hug 8. Developing
environmental agency and engagement through young people's fiction Jean
Webb and Stephen Bigger 9. The Lord of the Rings - a mythos applicable in
unsustainable times? Alun Morgan 10. Reading The Lorax, orienting in
potentiality Amy Sloane 11. Openings for researching environment and place
in children's literature: ecologies, potentials, realities, and challenges
Alan Reid, Philip Payne and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie