Teaching Environments: Ecocritical Encounters

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?Additional ISBNs3631638507, 3653040086, 9783631638507, 9783653040081Teaching Environments: Ecocritical Encounters 1st Edition is written by Author and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Teaching Environments are 9783653997057, 3653997054 and the print ISBNs are 9783631638507, 3631638507. Additional ISBNs include 3631638507, 3653040086, 9783631638507, 9783653040081.