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Description

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?

Table of Contents

Part I: Climate Change Across the Curriculum

Chapter 1, Writing Across the Curriculum: Lessons and Strategies, Douglass Hesse
Chapter 2, Citizen Science and Climate Change, Harry Boyte
Chapter 3, Diversity Across the Curriculum: Critical Race and Gender Theory, Geoffrey Batemanis

Part II: Teaching Climate Change within Academic Disciplines

Chapter 4, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Climate Crisis, Andrew J. Auge
Chapter 5, Qualitative Reasoning and Climate Change, Corrine Taylor and Steve Getty
Chapter 6, Climate Change and Aristotle, Chelsea C. Harry
Chapter 7, Values, Ideology, and Climate Change: A Psychological Perspective, Jeffrey Sinn
Chapter 8, Climate Ethics: Toward a Synthesis of Humanist and Posthumanist Thought, Eric J. Fretz
Chapter 9, Biology: Place-based Naturephilia, Catherine Kleier
Chapter 10, My Past is My Present Is My Future: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Climate Change Discourse, Annamarie Hatcher
Chapter 11, Why and How We Teach About Climate Change, Nicole Ho

Product details

Published Dec 24 2015
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 326
ISBN 9781498511186
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 6 b/w illustrations; 8 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Eric J. Fretz

Contributor

Andrew Auge

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Harry C. Boyte

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K.C. Busch

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Eric J. Fretz

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Stephen Getty

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Douglas Hesse

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Nicole Holthuis

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Faith Kearns

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John A. Kinch

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Rachel Lotan

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Jeff Sinn

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Corrine Taylor

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