Poetic Environmental Activism and Education

Auteur

Amanda Fulford has worked in senior research leadership positions in UK universities as Professor of Philosophy of Education. She now writes independently.

Victoria Jamieson is Senior Lecturer in Education, Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University, UK.

Texte du rabat

Bringing together the works of 19th and 20th century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd, the book discovers a common approach of poetic forms of writing that enact kinds of poetic environmental activism, and in doing so, re-position them in the context of current environmental crises.

Contenu

PART 1: Education and Environmental Crises in Context: Tracing Themes of Connection and Disconnectedness

Chapter 1: Thoreau and Shepherd: Beginnings

Chapter 2: Environmental Emergencies in Literature: Crises

Chapter 3: Environmental Activism and Environmental Apathy: Disconnectedness

Chapter 4: Education and the Natural World: Reconnecting

PART 2: Thoreau and Shepherd as Poetic Environmental Activists: Tracing Ideas of Dwelling and Attention

Chapter 5: Being with, and in, Nature through Thoreau and Shepherd: Dwelling

Chapter 6: A Care-ful Attention to the Natural Environment: Documenting

Chapter 7: Thoreau and Shepherd: Towards Poetic Environmental Activism

PART 3: Finding Hope: Possibilities for Poetic Environmental Activism in Contemporary Education

Chapter 8: Poetic Environmental Activism in Contemporary Education