1st Edition
Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis Hear Our Voices
Youth Climate Contributors List Introduction: The Need for this Book Section I. Justifying the Pedagogical Value of Media Production to Address the Climate Crisis 1. "We Are Nature Defending Itself": Universal Climate Literacy DIY with Youth Media Productions and Engagement 2. Centering Utopia: Fostering Youth Climate Change Education by Exploring and Envisioning Hopeful Future 3. General Ecology and Speculative Pedagogies: Youth Digital Media Practices for Climate Justice 4. Integrating Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches with Climate Justice Digital Media Projects Section II. Engaging Students in Imaginative and Critical Thinking Through Media Production 5. "Our Story Will be the Future": A Learner-centered Approach to Support Digital Multimodal Composing about the Climate Crisis 6. "Listen, There, To the Way the Real World Thinks in Me"—Cultivating an Empathic Imagination to Support Students’ Visual Stories that Address the Climate Crisis 7. Addressing Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Futures Through Creative Music Engagement 8. Fostering Proactive Ecological Identity of Youth Through Social Media Section III: Providing Students With Media Production Methods To Achieve Audience Uptake To Exact Change 9. Climate Writing Across Media: Scribing New Stories to Live By 10. The Long Haul: Three Decades of Teaching Student Documentary Action Research for Environmental and Climate Justice 11. Resilient by Youth Engagement: The Alameda Creek Atlas 12. Building Youth Voices: Media Created by Youth, For Youth
Biography
Richard Beach is the Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference; Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 4th Edition, Teaching Language as Action, Languaging Relations for Transforming Literacy and the Language Arts Classroom, and Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, 3rd Edition.
Blaine E. Smith is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University, USA. Her scholarship is focused on multilingual adolescents’ digital literacies and developing strategies for supporting teachers’ integration of technology in diverse classrooms.
