The Green Dialogues : Ecocritical Pathways to Children’s Literature in Education / by Marnie Campagnaro, Lea Ferrari, Nina Goga, Mariona Graell, Maria Pujol-Valls, Elin Stengrundet, Gro Ulland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campagnaro, Marnie.

Series:

Springer Texts in Education, 2366-7680

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental education.

Children's literature.

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

Environmental and Sustainability Education.

Children's Literature.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Local Subjects:

Environmental and Sustainability Education.

Children's Literature.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2026.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2026.

Summary:

This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical, dialogical, and sustainable approaches to developing children’s literature in university classrooms. Its core pillars—environmental children’s literature, ecocritical thinking, sustainable development, collaboration, and dialogic skills—lay the foundation for future professionals to be involved with literature in multiple and interdisciplinary ways. This book illustrates and encourages educational practices fostering critical, relational, and collaborative encounters and entanglements with multiple environments, materials, and matter. The many examples in this book are developed through various forms of collaboration between teacher educators and student teachers, between students and children’s literature, and in collaboration with different materials, spaces, bodies, sounds, and smells. It provides educators with a methodology for teaching children’s literature to students with a focus on topics related to sustainability, critical citizenship, and inclusion.

Contents:

Background and educational context

Theoretical framework

Silent frames dialoguing with the visual narrative of migrants

My rights our rights dialogue between childrens rights and values in books

Taking stands about discrimination and segregation a dialogue game about the historical picture book Rosas bus

Taking the hood back critical reading of little red riding hood

Knocking doors respecting your neighbours respecting cultural diversity

Childrens rights to linguistic and cultural diversity collaborative close readings of lappjævel sami bastard

Shaping the context to embrace inclusiveness

Lets discuss development of classroom literature gatherings

I love glasses accepting others points of view through role playing

To whom do the woods belong embodied and entangled engagement with ronia the robbers daughter

Wonders and wanders a literary botanical walkshop to connect with plants

Is less more reflection on consumerism and sustainability with selected picturebooks

Beware the questions exploring dialogues in and around a childrens song

Explore write and share a writing workshop about sustainable living

25 empowering books to face and act upon the current environmental emergencies.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-032-10418-1

9783032104182

OCLC:

1576248522