Critical scientific and environmental literacies: a systematic and critical review

Studies in Science Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 47

Опубликована: Май 13, 2024

In a global context of climate crisis and extension other planetary boundaries, science education particularly scientific environmental literacies have key role towards sustainable transformation action. However, scientific, or ecological are highly complex, defined interpreted in different ways, depend upon its social, cultural, political contexts. Previous research has reported that some definitions conventional visions typically disconnected from this catastrophe controversially been supported by neoliberal capitalism agendas underpin 21st-century economies. To tackle scenario, new critical approaches articulated with imperative. This paper provides systematic review literacies, seeking opportunities to materialise promote awareness process 'conscientisation' education. Findings report examine the range spectrum about how defined, conceptualised studied 1990s.

Язык: Английский

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Climate Change Literacy

Опубликована: Май 30, 2023

This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in environmental humanities on climate change and literacy. In contrast to dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely ignore unique resources humanities, it asks: How does literary reading contribute communication? this contribution relate recent demands for related literacies? Rather than reducing function literature more pleasurable form information transfer or its affective dimension evoking sympathy, thoroughly reassesses cognitive, affective, pedagogic potentials writing. It so by analysing selection popular novels demonstrating role fiction fostering adequate understanding of, response to, change. title is also available as Open Access Cambridge Core.

Язык: Английский

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Blue Humanities

Опубликована: Июль 14, 2023

By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, the environmental humanities, field of blue humanities critically examines planet's troubled seas distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in Anthropocene are overexploited endangered sites, calls for transdisciplinary cooperation encourages thinking with water together beyond conventions tentacular anthropocentric thought. Working across many disciplines, then, challenges cultural primacy standard sea freshwater narratives promotes disanthropocentric discourses about ecologies. Engaging most pressing problems, this Element contributes to those new discursive practices a material ecocritical perspective. The authors' hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter stories we tell can change game by changing our mindset.

Язык: Английский

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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

Опубликована: Май 22, 2024

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as example its many stories. is shown that the common notions of history, which assume only became a useful material miraculous operation called vulcanization, attributed US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it important products inventions Indigenous peoples South America, made durable by process can be organic vulcanization. invention, story starts. Without it, would not exist, neither in Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.

Язык: Английский

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Anthroposcreens

Опубликована: Июль 11, 2023

Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during Anthropocene. Drawing attention to affects of climate change broader environmental damage Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools from cultural studies—such debates over Black representation—to provide readings underlying themes American Norwegian screen texts. These bodies work useful counterpoint dominance white Anglo-American stories cli-fi while also ranging beyond boundaries genre show how unconscious lens functions set Working across studies, humanities, establishes cross-disciplinary contemporary productions. This title is available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Язык: Английский

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Growing Hope

Опубликована: Янв. 27, 2025

Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of better future in face grim realities. It brings together two kinds that are rarely considered conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and vegan food justice. shows there is much common ground between these movements told by them worth exploring as part larger narrative creating more equitable future. In United States, this especially true for people color their historically marginalized communities. Employing an econarratological approach informed critical studies, environmental justice ecocriticism, transmedia explores selection who fight against injustice ideologies sustaining it: defiant culinary self-empowerment.

Язык: Английский

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Climate Fiction as Future‐Making: Narrative and Cultural Modelling Beyond Representation

Future Humanities, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 3(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 13, 2025

ABSTRACT Climate fiction (cli‐fi) increasingly attracts the attention of wider publics and expert science communities. And yet, critiques its limits efficiency as a tool persuading broader readerships are also becoming more frequent. This article draws on such discussions representing climate change related crises. We argue that, first, focus representational capacity occludes other, equally important, functions fiction. Second, we aver that insufficiently reflects own didactic bias leads critics to endorse or even instrumentalize literary narrative for seemingly obvious good cause educating mobilizing readers. The suggests shifting from mere issues representation questions effect impact reading in conceptual context imaginaries, defined shared set beliefs, practices norms, define scope individual collective future‐thinking. It aims develop better understanding potential links between future‐making employs insights model theory theories (climate) modelling—the dominant, authoritative form many disciplines, especially natural sciences—to propose cli‐fi can be seen an important alternative when it is recognized cultural modelling. allows us acknowledge technology directly impacting will show through exemplary readings two case studies, Jessie Greengrass's novel High House (2021) Rory Mullarkey's play Flood (premiered 2018).

Язык: Английский

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Towards a ‘Development Humanities’: widening the multi-disciplinary field of development studies

Oxford Development Studies, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 14

Опубликована: Март 11, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The Development of Ecological Identities in Children’s Books: A Linguistic Approach to Character Positioning as Eco-Rebels

Humanities, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14(3), С. 58 - 58

Опубликована: Март 12, 2025

Eco-rebels can provide readers a role model that encourages sustainable thinking and action in everyday life. The protagonists ecological children’s young adult literature (CYL) are mostly ignorant at the beginning. They learn as story progresses develop into environmentally conscious individuals who taken seriously actively committed to protecting their environment. This article would like present linguistic method for analyzing how guided CYL, allowing them follow understand protagonist’s change towards becoming an eco-rebel. study hypothesizes development of identity, although individual evolution story, is pattern CYL. possibilities identification text offers its reader must be considered crucial experiences gained within fiction framework influence real consciousness processes. In this context, Bamberg’s identity dilemmatic spaces used analysis, construction storytelling made tangible. These have been expanded include categories. figure eco-rebel thus analyzed according different linguistically based or narrative-based aspects speech markings agenda.

Язык: Английский

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Empowering Secondary Teachers for Climate Literacy Pedagogy

The English Journal, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 114(3), С. 72 - 78

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

This essay outlines the opportunities and challenges of incorporating children’s literature as media for climate literacy instruction, with focuses on creating working Climate Lit entries how this work can be adapted to secondary English classrooms.

Язык: Английский

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