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We urge readers to use the ideas and activities in this book, develop them further, and create new conceptions to share with educators and students.Įco-Literate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett, and Zenobia Barlow (Jossey-Bass 2012, 192 pages, $24.95 paperback)
This book presents powerful ideas for transformative eco-education. Unless these concepts are changed, we will increase global warming and add to the ruin of much of the Earth.
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Such education demands the transformation of many deeply rooted ideas: the Earth exists merely to provide for human comfort the extinction or reduction of other species does not matter we are free to consume or destroy natural resources and the Earth will continue to sustain us, even if we do not sustain the Earth. Transformative eco-education is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet. Oxford and Jing Lin (Information Age Publishing 2011, 408 pages, $45.99 paperback) Transformative Eco-Education for Human and Planetary Survival, edited by Rebecca L. Supporting materials, including notes for instructors and students, graphics, video-clips, games, and online resources, offer scope for further private study and group work. Practical exercises and case studies take readers through role-play activities and research projects.
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These include how to build and test a climate model, who and what is most at risk from climate change, and whether we should geoengineer the climate. Topic summaries provide answers to technical, socio-economic and moral questions surrounding the deployment of climate science.
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Wilby (Cambridge University Press 2017, 291 pages, $44.99 paperback)ĭerived from an undergraduate course taught by the author, this accessible book seeks to challenge and provoke readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society. *For a limited time the publisher is selling the $24.95 book for this remaindered price.Ĭlimate Change in Practice: Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises, by Robert L. Designed by leading thinkers in systems, communications, and sustainability, the games focus on learning by doing. Users will find games that are suitable for a variety of audiences – whether large and seated, as in a conference or class room, or smaller and mobile, as in a workshop, seminar, or meeting. Illustrated guidelines walk teachers/leaders through setting each game up, facilitating it, and debriefing participants. Is there a way to reach people who hold mistaken assumptions about climate change? The simple, interactive exercises in The Climate Change Playbook can help students and citizens better understand climate change, diagnose its causes, anticipate its future consequences, and effect constructive change. The Climate Change Playbook: 22 Systems Thinking Games for More Effective Communication about Climate Change, by Dennis Meadows, Linda Booth Sweeney, and Gillian Martin Mehers (Chelsea Green Publishing 2016, 192 pages, $6.24* paperback) Environmental education, the book demonstrates, is an important player in fostering positive climate change dialogue and action. This broad set of topics will aid educators in formulating program language for their classrooms at all levels. Each chapter covers a separate topic, from how environmental psychology explains the complex ways in which people interact with climate change information to communication strategies with a focus on framing, metaphors, and messengers. Starting with the basics of climate science and climate change public opinion, the authors synthesize research from environmental psychology and climate change communication, weaving in examples of environmental education applications throughout this practical book. Schuldt (Cornell University Press 2018, 144 pages, $19.95 paperback) When two dates of publication are provided, the second is the date for the paperback edition.Ĭommunicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators, by Anne K. This second part highlights books that focus on specific subtopics.Īs always, the descriptions are drawn and/or adapted from copy provided by the publishers. The first part covered books that address the general theory and practice of teaching climate change. But in what classes should the diverse causes and consequences of climate change be covered? If meeting the challenge of climate change will affect, in some way, nearly every aspect of contemporary life, should it be covered, in some way, in every course? This month’s bookshelf features books about climate change education. In the wake of this summer’s record-breaking heat – hottest June on record, the hottest month ever in July – students and teachers have returned to their classrooms.