Lexington Books
Pages: 182
Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-1-4985-3596-0 • Hardback • October 2018 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-4985-3598-4 • Paperback • June 2020 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-1-4985-3597-7 • eBook • October 2018 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Rebecca Youngis language and literature assessment specialist for Measured Progress and the International Baccalaureate Organization.
Foreword by John Adams
Introduction: A New Story
Chapter 1: Literature and Empathy: A Rationale for Change
Chapter 2: A Taker-Leaver Paradigm: Cultural Representations in Contemporary Fiction
Chapter 3: Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fostering International Perspectives
Chapter 4: Let’s Share the Table: Building Ecoliterate Communities
Chapter 5: Morality and Environmental Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Franzen’s Freedom
Chapter 6: Ecopsychology: Harmonizing Our Paths
Afterword by David W. Orr
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If educators take Rebecca Young’s advice to harness the power of imaginative world-making and empathetic reading, perhaps we have a chance not only to confront climate crisis but to persuade young people to take tangible steps to repair and protect our environment. A first step would be to recover the original sense of empathy, with Einfühlung, a feeling-into the inanimate world upon which we depend.
— Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University
This book could not be more timely or more necessary. The most important questions the planet faces are changing quickly—all of a sudden, survival and fairness seem at least as crucial as that old standby, 'how can we grow bigger?' That world requires a new pedagogy, one whose outlines this volume helps you sense.
— Bill McKibben, Author of Deep Economy