The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning WorldAn easy-to-use field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in your students—and yourself—in an age of crisis. As feelings of eco-grief and climate anxiety grow, educators are grappling with how to help students learn about the violent systems causing climate change while simultaneously navigating the emotions this knowledge elicits. This book provides resources for developing emotional and existential tenacity in college classrooms so that students can stay engaged. Featuring insights from scholars, educators, activists, artists, game designers, and others who are integrating emotional wisdom into climate justice education, this user-friendly guide offers a robust menu of interdisciplinary, plug-and-play teaching strategies, lesson plans, and activities to support student transformation and build resilience. The book also includes reflections from students who have taken classes that incorporate their emotions in the curricula. Galvanizing and practical, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators will equip both educators and their students with tools for advancing climate justice. |
Contents
A Pedagogy for Emotional Climate Justice | 17 |
Transformative Psychological Approaches to Climate Education | 31 |
Activities for Feeling Climate Change | 49 |
Unfucking the World | 74 |
Accessibility | 81 |
Leveraging Affect for Climate Justice | 99 |
Exploring the Roots and Ramifications of the Environmental | 116 |
Building Somatic Awareness to Respond to ClimateRelated Trauma | 133 |
Climate Guilt and the Systemic Drivers | 210 |
The Power of Play in a Time of Worry and Fear | 221 |
Finding Hope in the Influence and Efficacy of NativeIndigenous Rights | 228 |
Teaching Climate Change Resilience through Play | 234 |
Building Capacity for Resilience in the Face of Environmental Shocks | 240 |
Releasing Growth | 247 |
Collaborative Writing Games for Existential | 254 |
Acting Emoting and Staying Together through | 279 |
Somatic Speculation for Climate Justice | 147 |
Overcoming the Tragic | 162 |
Cultivating Radical Imagination through Storytelling | 177 |
Why Worry? The Utility of Fear for Climate Justice | 193 |
Navigating the Epistemic and Affective | 201 |
Reading Fiction to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis | 285 |
How Will Climate Change Affect My Career? | 295 |
List of Contributors | 313 |
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