How to Confront Climate Denial: Literacy, Social Studies, and Climate Change

Climate change and climate denial have been largely ignored in literacy and social studies education, but this book addresses this gap with the Climate Denial Inquiry Model (CDIM) and examples of how educators and students can confront two forms of climate denial: science denial and action denial. The CDIM highlights how critical literacies specifically designed for climate denial texts can be used alongside eco-civic practices of deliberation, reflexivity, and counter-narration to help students discern corporate, financial, and politically motivated roots of climate denial and to better understand efforts to misinform the American public, sow doubt and distrust of basic scientific knowledge, and erode support for evidence-based policymaking and collective civic action. The book also charts a path from destructive stories steeped in climate denial to ecojustice stories to live by that invite teachers and students to consider more just and sustainable futures.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2022
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

Climate change and climate denial have been largely overlooked in literacy and social studies education, but this book aims to address that gap with the Climate Denial Inquiry Model (CDIM) and clear examples of how educators and students can confront two forms of climate denial: science denial and action denial. The CDIM highlights how critical literacies specifically designed for climate denial texts can be used alongside eco-civic practices of deliberation, reflexivity, and counter-narration to help students discern corporate, financial, and politically motivated roots of climate denial and to better understand efforts to misinform the American public, sow doubt and distrust of basic scientific knowledge, and erode support for evidence-based policymaking and collective civic action. With an emphasis on inquiry-based teaching and learning, the book also charts a path from destructive stories-we-live-by that are steeped in climate denial (humans are separate from nature, the primary goal of society is economic growth without limits, nature is a resource to be used and exploited) to ecojustice stories-To-live by that invite teachers and students to consider more just and sustainable futures. The book features an innovative model to help educators address climate science denial and climate action denial, clear examples of how to integrate critical literacies designed specifically for climate denial, concrete climate- and inquiry-based teaching and learning pathways in literacy and social studies with much potential for connections across other content, and a focus on inquiry-based teaching and learning.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807767214