Climate Change across the Curriculum

Contributions by Andrew Auge, Geoffrey Bateman, Harry C. Boyte, K.C. Busch, Eric J. Fretz, Stephen Getty, Chelsea C. Harry, Annamarie Hatcher, Douglas Hesse, Nicole Holthuis, Faith Kearns, John A. Kinch, Catherine Kleier, Rachel Lotan, Michael Mastrandrea, Jennifer Saltzman, Jeff Sinn, Corrine Taylor Edited by Eric J. Fretz

Publication date:

24 December 2015

Length of book:

326 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

238x157mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498511186

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?

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 Holthuis, Rachel Lotan, Michael D. Mastrandrea and Jennifer Saltzman,
Chapter 12, Teacher Education and Climate Change, K.C. Busch

Part III: Voices from the Field

Chapter 13, A Relational Approach to Climate Change, Faith Kearns
Chapter 14, University-Community Partnerships, John A. Kinch

Here is a book, rich in examples and compellingly written, that shows exactly why and how college and universities can tear down their old-fashioned silos to address the great challenge of our time.