1st Edition

Cultivating Sustainability in Language and Literature Pedagogy Steps to an Educational Ecology

Edited By Roman Bartosch Copyright 2021
160 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book introduces the notion of "educational ecology" as a necessary and promising pedagogic principle for the teaching of Anglophone literatures and cultures in a time of climate change. Drawing on scholarship in the environmental humanities and practice-oriented research in education and literature pedagogy, chapters address the challenges of climate change and the demand for sustainability... Read more

1. Towards an Educational Ecology 2. Climate-Change as Quality Education 3. Learned Will, Literature, and the Environmental Turn 4. Cultivating Viewpoint Diversity in Ecocritical Pedagogy 5. What’s in a Language? Environmental Concepts and Metaphors in Foreign Language Education 6. Teaching Sustainable Texts: The Value of Cultural Ecology 7. Teaching Literary Atmospheres: A Theoretical Ground for a Hazy Matter 8. The Blue Humanities, Maritime Literature and Educational Ecology in the Age of Climate Change 9. Outlook: Education and the Digital Environmental Humanities

Biography

Roman Bartosch is Associate Professor of Teaching Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education in the Humanities (Cologne).