In what ways would you like to address Climate Change in your educational setting? What role would literacy play in this?
Promoting Professional Development and Best Practice in EE
Literacy and Climate Change
I believe an effective way to engage learners on topics that are emotionally charged, complex, and/or controversial is through reading works of fiction. I would like to help educators incorporate nonfiction from a new and expanding genre of "CliFi" (Climate Fiction) into their curriculum via the reading of novels. In this way, developing language/ literacy knowledge and skills is linked to learning about climate change. Well crafted novels, I believe, would be particularly helpful in developing an understanding of social aspects of climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation.
