Climate Change across the Curriculum (eBook)

Eric J. Fretz (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
348 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1119-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, faculty members from a wide range of disciplines reflect on how they engage their academic specializations to teach students about the science, politics, and ethics of climate change. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues in the university.

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Climate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university level. The content of this book aims to introduce climate change to classes outside of the sciences, as it will take a wide range of disciplines, broader institutional thinking, and experimentation to fully engage university resources and knowledge toward the mitigation of fossil fuel consumption and adaptation to the negative consequences of climate change. Climate Change across the Curriculum encourages professors to engage salient aspects of their academic disciplines to the study of climate issues in the classroom, as well as sample theories, practices, and resources from a wide range of academic disciplines outside of their own areas of specialization. The contributors ask: what role will higher education play in addressing environmental challenges and producing students who become professionals who accomplish work that solves these problems?

Autor

Eric J. Fretz is associate professor of peace and justice studies at Regis University.

Inhalt

Part I: Climate Change Across the CurriculumChapter 1, Writing Across the Curriculum: Lessons and Strategies, Douglass HesseChapter 2, Citizen Science and Climate Change, Harry Boyte Chapter 3, Diversity Across the Curriculum: Critical Race and Gender Theory, Geoffrey BatemanisPart II: Teaching Climate Change within Academic Disciplines Chapter 4, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Climate Crisis, Andrew J. AugeChapter 5, Qualitative Reasoning and Climate Change, Corrine Taylor and Steve GettyChapter 6, Climate Change and Aristotle, Chelsea C. HarryChapter 7, Values, Ideology, and Climate Change: A Psychological Perspective, Jeffrey SinnChapter 8, Climate Ethics: Toward a Synthesis of Humanist and Posthumanist Thought, Eric J. FretzChapter 9, Biology: Place-based Naturephilia, Catherine KleierChapter 10, My Past is My Present Is My Future: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Climate Change Discourse, Annamarie HatcherChapter 11, Why and How We Teach About Climate Change, Nicole Holthuis, Rachel Lotan, Michael D. Mastrandrea and Jennifer Saltzman,Chapter 12, Teacher Education and Climate Change, K.C. BuschPart III: Voices from the FieldChapter 13, A Relational Approach to Climate Change, Faith KearnsChapter 14, University-Community Partnerships, John A. Kinch

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2015
• Co-Autor: Andrew Auge, Nicole Holthuis, Faith Kearns, John A. Kinch, Catherine Kleier, Rachel Lotan, Michael Mastrandrea, Jennifer Saltzman, Jeff Sinn, Corrine Taylor, Geoffrey Bateman, Harry C. Boyte, K.C. Busch, Eric J. Fretz, Stephen Getty, Chelsea C. Harry, Annamarie Hatcher, Douglas Hesse
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: climate change • higher education
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1119-8 / 1498511198
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1119-3 / 9781498511193