Global Climate Education and Its Discontents : Using Drama to Forge a New Way / edited by Kathleen Gallagher and Christine Balt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallagher, Kathleen, editor.

Balt, Christine, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama in education.

Climatic changes--Study and teaching.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 338 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

Kathleen Gallagher is Director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Distinguished Professor. Gallagher studies theatre as a powerful medium for expression by young people of their experiences and understandings. Christine Balt is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research takes place at the intersection of theatre, pedagogy, ecology, and collective well-being in the lives of young people living in cities.

Contents:

Foreword: A Scientist's PerspectiveLenore Fahrig IntroductionLiving the Contradictions: Theatre and the Arts as Deep, Life-sustaining Frameworks for Climate Education on an Exhausted PlanetKathleen Gallagher and Christine Balt Part 1: Local Engagements and Encounters 1. Building a Global Ensemble as Alternative Education for the Climate Emergency: Theatre Pedagogies for Activating Artist-citizens in Tkarón:to/TorontoKathleen Gallagher 2. Esperanza Ambiental: Cultivating Environmental Hope in Bogotá through Pedagogies of Humility and RiskJorge Arcila, Fredy Oswaldo González Cordero, Celeste Kirsh, Nancy Cardwell, and Christine Balt 3. Engaging Youth with the Climate Crisis: Playful Tactics for Dialogue and Devising in CoventryRachel Turner-King and Bobby Smith 4. Unravelling Narratives of Climate Change, Gender, and Livelihood in Lucknow: An Ecofeminist PerspectiveUrvashi Sahni, Munia Debleena Tripathi, and Christine Balt 5. Towards a Glocalized Critical Sensory Pedagogy: Explorations of Heavy Industry and Climate (In)justice in KaohsiungBetsy Lan and Chia-Ling Yang 6. The Tacit Knowledge of Environmental Experience: Theatre, Cultural Reckonings, and 'Publicing' in GreeceMyrto Pigkou-Repousi 7. The Digital Dilemma: Navigating Place, Space, Relationships, and Possibilities in Global Youth-based Climate Education ResearchLindsay Valve Part 2: Pedagogical and Artistic Innovations 8. Beyond the Public Service Announcement: Navigating Hard Facts and Dissident Feelings in the Climate Emergency through Verbatim TheatreChristine Balt 9. Performative Pedagogies and Creative Courage: Building New Worlds during the COVID-19 PandemicNancy Cardwell 10. Exploring Resistance and Acceptance at the Threshold of the Future: Speculative Fiction and Human DesiresAshleigh A. Allen 11. Virtual, Sonic Drama as Climate Crisis Pedagogy: Listening to the Environment to better Understand our Place in the WorldCeleste Kirsh 12. Fiction and Embodiment as Gateways to Explore Posthuman TogethernessMunia Debleena Tripathi 13. Provoking 'Eco-gladness': Movement across Four Drama PedagogiesAndrew Kushnir 14. Attending to Settler-colonial and Indigenous Histories: 'Being in Common' and Acknowledging Land through Site-specific PerformanceChristine Balt, Kathleen Gallagher, Nancy Cardwell, and Celeste Kirsh Afterword: Gifts from LocalityAmanda Buffalo

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed November 21, 2024).

ISBN:

9781032615714

1032615710

9781040164327

1040164323

9781040164341

104016434X

Publisher Number:

40032730852

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.