Sustainable Literary Classrooms: Texts that Matter in the Anthropocene (Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies)

This book explores how Education for Sustainability and the Environment (ESE) can form an integral part of the teaching of fiction, drama, and poetry with teenage and adult learners. Building on posthumanism, postcritique, and resonance theory, this book answers an important question: since the environment can no longer be regarded as a fixed backdrop for human action, how can literature help students live and thrive in the Anthropocene?Engaging with empirical case studies of creative and exploratory teaching, and couched in theory drawn from pedagogy and the Environmental Humanities, the book argues that good ESE in the context of literary education must start from an understanding of what good literary pedagogy is.As such, it rejects the common search for texts that transform learners into sustainable citizens, viewing this as an instrumentalization of literature which is unsustainable in its own right.Instead, the book highlights the potential of literary reading and discussion in h