Teaching Environments : Ecocritical Encounters.
Title:
Teaching Environments : Ecocritical Encounters.
Author:
Bartosch, Roman.
ISBN:
9783653040081
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Series:
Of Empire and the City
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword. Greg Garrard -- Introductions -- Teaching Environments:How 'Green' Can-and Should-a Classroom Be? Roman Bartosch & Sieglinde Grimm -- Where Foreign Language Education Meets, Clashes and Grapples with the Environment. Uwe Küchler -- Beginnings: From Picture Books to Young Adult Fiction and Film -- Ants, Bees, Bugs, and Spiders Insects in Children's Literature. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer -- Teaching a Poetics of Failure?The Benefit of Not-Understanding the Other, Posthumanism,and the Works of Shaun Tan and Wolf Erlbruch. Roman Bartosch -- Ecocritical Sensitivity with Multimodal Texts in the EFL/ESL Literature Classroom. Janice Bland -- When Pigs Cry. Teaching the Gaze, Materialities and Environmental Ethics with the film Babe. Kylie Crane -- Transdisciplinary Encounters I: Approaching the 'Two Cultures' -- Pedagogy and the Power of the Ecoliterary Text. Adrian Rainbow -- Scientific Encounters in Literature. How the 'Two Cultures' Can Profit from Each Other In and Outside the Classroom. Celestine Caruso -- Transdisciplinary Encounters II: Historizing Environmental Discourse -- The Fall of Man and the Corruption of Nature:A Medieval Perspective. Haiko Wandhoff -- "A Deathless Love for the Natural and the Free":Nature, Masculinity and Whiteness in 19th-Century America. Dominik Ohrem -- Teaching Cultural Ecology from German Romanticism to the Present. E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gottfried Keller, and W.G. Sebald. Sieglinde Grimm -- Debate -- The Function of Criticism. A Response to William Major and Andrew McMurry's Editorial. Roman Bartosch -- The Function of Criticism. A Response to William Major and Andrew McMurry's Editorial. Roman Bartosch (Cologne) and Greg Garrard -- Response of William Major and Andrew McMurry. William Major and Andrew McMurry -- The Case Against Agenda. Pamela Swanigan.
Ecodidactics? A German PerspectiveSieglinde Grimm -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors.
Abstract:
The essays in this collection seek to bring together current developments in ecocriticism and the pedagogical practice of teaching English at all levels, from primary schools to Higher Education. They cover theoretical and practical discussions of the nexus between the sciences and the humanities and maintain that the notion of the two cultures be refused for good, they argue for the inclusion of particular texts or theoretical perspectives, and they suggest ways to teaching environments on different levels of language competence and in the context of historical and transdisciplinary encounters with ecology, nature, and animals. Despite this variety, they share some common threads and engage with questions that are highly relevant for teaching in general and have acquired even more relevance in our rapidly changing and posthumanist teaching environments: How do we raise consciousness without preaching? What kind of critical attitude is required for the empowerment of our pupils and students? How do we actually imagine encounters between the sciences and the (post)humanities, and which texts, what kind of texts, and which approaches will prove most fruitful?.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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