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Climate consciousness and environmental activism in composition : writing to save the world / edited by Joseph R. Lease.
Van Pelt Library PE1404 .C5455 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ecocritical theory and practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Natural history--Authorship--Study and teaching.
- Natural history.
- Environmental literature--Authorship--Study and teaching.
- Environmental literature.
- Ecology--Authorship--Study and teaching.
- Ecology.
- Interdisciplinary approach in education.
- Academic writing--Study and teaching.
- Academic writing.
- Nature study.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 218 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This volume addresses the pressing need to continue the work of bringing sustainability into the college classroom. It provides accounts from a variety of instructors' experiences with and best practices for incorporating climate change issues into writing-intensive courses"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intoduction : now more than ever / Joseph R. Lease
- Sustainability and writing: radishes, scythes, Thoreau, and students / Ron Balthazor
- Ecotopia revisited in image: the imagined (and enacted) and promise of Portland / Hill Taylor
- "Meanderings to the river": a sustainable approach to teaching sustainability in first-year composition / Deborah Church Miller, Lindsay Tigue, and Kim Waters
- Reflecting on action & acting on reflection: high-impact practices for transformative learning in sustainability / Justin Rademaekers and Cheryl Wanko
- Design thinking and sustainability problem solving: reconceptualizing a first-year, writing-intensive seminar / Joseph R. Lease, Matthew R. Martin, and Joanne Chu
- Creating sustainability through creativity: using creative writing to reframe and build connections / Lesley Hawkens
- East to West-the interconnectedness of all things created / Pamela Herron
- "Against sustainability": and other provocations for a first-year writing -intensive seminar / Abby L. Goode<br>
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Climate consciousness and environmental activism in composition
- ISBN:
- 9781498528825
- 1498528821
- OCLC:
- 1132282173
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