Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling

Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today's students, providing entry points for investigating particular aspects of climate science and fostering climate literacy through knowledge, empathy, and agency. Contributors from around the world encourage educators to align pedagogy with real-world challenges to prepare students who understand the climate crisis and feel empowered to confront it.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 254 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books

Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today's students. These forms include climate fiction, protest poetry, fiction and documentary films, video games, and social media. The stories are used as exemplars to explore various aspects of climate science, including the local and global impacts of a warming planet. Each chapter provides analyses and strategies for fostering climate (and space) literacy through knowledge, empathy, and agency. Contributors from around the world encourage educators to align pedagogy with real-world challenges in order to prepare students who understand the myriad injustices of the climate crisis and feel empowered to confront them. They share their own stories and urge educators to join the growing, hopeful movement for action, classroom by classroom.

Weight: 349g
Dimension: 228 x 150 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666915815