Poetry and Sustainability in Education

This edited collection offers educators at all levels a range of practical and theoretical approaches to teaching poetry in the context of environmental sustainability. The contributors are keenly aware of the urgency facing the planet's ecosystemsecosystems which include all of usand this volume makes the case that teaching poetry is not a luxury. Each of the book's three sections works from a specific angle and register. Part I focuses on pragmatic approaches to classroom activities and curricular choices; Part II considers policies and politics, including the role of the UN's Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) program; and Part III takes a widescreen view, exploring the philosophical issues that arise when poems are integrated into sustainability curricula. This book exemplifies how poetry empowers readers to think imaginatively about how to sustainand why to sustainour world, its resources, and its beauty.

Offers educators at all levels a range of practical and theoretical approaches Focuses on pragmatic approaches to classroom activities and curricular choices Considers policies and politics, including the role of the UN's Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) program

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Sandra Lee Kleppe is Professor of English-language literature at Inland Norway University. She is author of The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current (2013), editor/co-author of Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century (2015), and co-editor/co-author of Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan: Disciplines, Classrooms, Contexts (with Angela Sorby, 2018). Angela Sorby is Professor of English at Marquette University. Her prior books include Distance Learning (1998); Schoolroom Poets (2005); Bird Skin Coat (2009); The Sleeve Waves (2014); Over the River and Through the Wood (with Karen Kilcup, 2013); and Poetry and Pedagogy Across the Lifespan (with Sandra Kleppe, 2018).

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PART I: LEARNING WITH THE BIOSPHERE: BIRDS, BEES, FLOWERS AND TREES.- Chapter 1. Birdsong, Poetry and Sustainability in Education.- Chapter 2. Hanging on for the Bees: Teaching with Sylvia Plath's Bee Poems.- Chapter 3. These Things Never Happened but Are Always: Why Tree Poems Matter.- Chapter 4. Listening to Animals for a Change. On Teaching Animal Poetry from a Critical Rhetorical Perspective.- Chapter 5. Indigenous Poetry and Sustainability: Troubling Anthropocene Logic through Kinship, Wholeness and Care.- PART II: POETIC LITERACY AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 6. Poetic Learning for a Sustainable Future: Transforming Our Collective.- Chapter 7. "Whose Action Is No Stronger than a Flower?: Poetry, Education and Environmental Crisis.- Chapter 8. First World War Poetry and Historical Literacy.- Chapter 9. Ecopoetry, Pedagogical Encounters and Holding Absence Present: Ideas for ClassroomsPART III: POETS, PHILOSOPHERS, ANDTHE PLANET.- Chapter 10. Towards a Pedagogy of The Transversal: Using Félix Guattari's Ecosophical Aesthetics for Teaching Poetry.- Chapter 11. Right has just left: Learning from Concurrency and the Experiential Aspect of the Ongoing in Cia Rinne's Poetic Work.- Chapter 12. The Message of Poetry or Poetry as Messenger: The Poetics of Sustainability in the Pedagogical Context.- Chapter 13. Towards a Sustainable Imagination: Reflections on Olav H. Hauge and the Teaching of Poetry.