The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators : How to Teach in a Burning World / Edited by Jennifer Atkinson and Sarah Jaquette Ray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, Jennifer, Author.

Contributor:

Atkinson, Jennifer Wren, editor.

Ray, Sarah Jaquette, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate justice--Study and teaching.

Climate justice.

Social justice and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages)

Other Title:

How to Teach in a Burning World

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

An easy-to-use field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in your students--and yourself--in an age of crisis. As feelings of eco-grief and climate anxiety grow, educators are grappling with how to help students learn about the violent systems causing climate change while simultaneously navigating the emotions this knowledge elicits. This book provides resources for developing emotional and existential tenacity in college classrooms so that students can stay engaged. Featuring insights from scholars, educators, activists, artists, game designers, and others who are integrating emotional wisdom into climate justice education, this user-friendly guide offers a robust menu of interdisciplinary, plug-and-play teaching strategies, lesson plans, and activities to support student transformation and build resilience. The book also includes reflections from students who have taken classes that incorporate their emotions in the curricula. Galvanizing and practical, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators will equip both educators and their students with tools for advancing climate justice.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments and Gratitude

Introduction. Climate, Justice, and Emotions in the Classroom: Why a Toolkit?

Part I: Getting Started with Emotions in the Climate Justice Classroom

1. A Pedagogy for Emotional Climate Justice

2. Balancing Feelings and Action: Four Steps for Working with Climate-Related Emotions and Helping Each Student Find Their Calling

3. Transformative Psychological Approaches to Climate Education

4. From Existential Crisis to Action Planning: Building Individual and Community Resilience

5. Empathy and Care: Activities for Feeling Climate Change

6. The Emotional Impact Statement

7. The Politics of Hope

8. Unfucking the World

Part II: Justice as Affective Pedagogy

9. Preparing Students to Navigate a Harrowing Educational Landscape: Accessibility and Inclusion for the Climate Justice Classroom

10. Photovoice for the Climate Justice Classroom: Inviting Students' Affective and Sociopolitical Engagement

11. Leveraging Affect for Climate Justice

12. Infrastructure Affects: Registering Impressions of Mega-Dams

13. From Principles to Praxis: Exploring the Roots and Ramifications of the Environmental Justice Movement

Part III: Embodied Pedagogies

14. Working with Ecological Emotions: Mind Map and Spectrum Line

15. Building Somatic Awareness to Respond to Climate-Related Trauma

16. Using Poetry to Resist Alienation in the Climate Change Classroom

17. Prompts for Feeling-Thinking-Doing: Somatic Speculation for Climate Justice

Part IV: Futurity, Narrative, and the Imagination: Visualizing What We Desire

18. The Tool of Imagination

19. Overcoming the Tragic

20. Practicing Speculative Futures

21. Cultivating Radical Imagination through Storytelling

Part V: Unsettling Pedagogies: Discomfort and Difficult Knowledge.

22. Critical Journalism, Creative Activism, and a Pedagogy of Discomfort

23. Why Worry? The Utility of Fear for Climate Justice

24. The Social Ecology of Responsibility: Navigating the Epistemic and Affective Dimensions of the Climate Crisis

25. Beyond the Accountability Paradox: Climate Guilt and the Systemic Drivers of Climate Change

Part VI: Joy and Resilience as Resistance

26. Joyful Climate Work: The Power of Play in a Time of Worry and Fear

27. Finding Hope in the Influence and Efficacy of Native/Indigenous Rights

28. Teaching Climate Change Resilience through Play

29. Building Capacity for Resilience in the Face of Environmental Shocks

30. Releasing Growth

31. Ecotopia versus Zombie Apocalypse: Collaborative Writing Games for Existential Regeneration

Part VII: Community, Collaboration, and Kinship

32. Facilitating "R&amp

R": Student-Led Climate Resilience and Resistance

33. Climate Justice and Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum: Empowering Action and Fostering Well-Being

34. Come for Climate, Stay for Community: Acting, Emoting, and Staying Together through the Climate Crisis

35. The Climate Imaginary: Reading Fiction to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis

Part VIII: These Skills Are Needed in the World: Career Planning for the Climate Generation

36. How Will Climate Change Affect My Career

37. Fostering Student Agency for Climate Justice through Vocational Exploration

Appendix: Chapters Sorted by Themes

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-39713-4

OCLC:

1428262461