`This is an important book for all concerned with the teaching and learning of English, exploring new and hugely significant areas in a scholarly, thought-provoking and eminently practical way.'
This book is about teaching English with a commitment to environmental values drawing on ecocritical perspectives and examples of classroom practice. It aims to inform English teachers about environmental issues and offers ideas and inspiration for teaching English lessons with `ecocritical' awareness. Crucially, it also explores how to teach English with a commitment to the pleasure of reading and creating texts and with attention to the interest of students in the world around them.
Drawing together ideas from a range of disciplines in the study of texts which explore nature, the built environment and issues of climate change and environmental stress, this book shows how English is well placed to develop the cultural, aesthetic and emotional response to environmental themes - both as part of everyday practice and within wider curriculum innovations.
The true worth of a school subject is revealed in how far it can account for and respond to the major issues of the time. This timely textbook breaks new ground in showing how English teachers can have a pivotal role in responding to the environmental crisis.
