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Bringing together the works of 19^th and 20^th century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd, the book discovers a common approach of poetic forms of writing that enact kinds of poetic environmental activism, and in doing so, re-position them in the context of current environmental crises.

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This book brings together the works of the nineteenth and twentieth century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd. Finding in their work a common approach of poetic forms of writing that enact kinds of environmental activism, the book re-positions them in the context of current environmental crises by offering an original resource for supporting poetic environmental activism in educational contexts.

Bringing together scholarship from North America and Europe, the book draws on Thoreau and Shepherd?s literary and philosophical sources to support a conceptual understanding of education?s role in how we think about, understand, and tackle the climate crisis. Chapters trace the idea of poetic environmental activism in Thoreau and Shepherd, applying literary and environmental thought to educational practice and contexts. The book is timely in taking a scholarly approach that explores educational engagements with climate change and focuses on education for environmental sustainability.

Advocating for engagement with the climate emergency through the lens of poetic environmental activism, this volume will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars involved with sustainability education, philosophy of education, poetic inquiry, and literary theory for environmental action.

"A beautifully written and compelling account of the lives and environmental literature of Henry Thoreau and Anna Shepherd. It explores the intricate relationship between dwelling sensitively in communion with their New England and Scottish landscapes, care-fully observing nature, and documenting environmental change as a form of ?poetic environmental action?: not as a substitute, but as groundwork and companion for other forms of environmental action. In this well-composed album of portraits, Thoreau and Shepherd stand out as emissaries speaking to our troubled times in the Climate Crisis: as vital exemplars within the long literary and educational traditions that position the more-than-human realm as both inspiration and first teacher."

Jeffrey Stickney, Senior Lecturer, Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Department, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

"This powerfully curated text serves as a reminder to its readers that environmental education, climate activism and ecological consciousness will get humanity nowhere without a flourishing poetic core. This significant work introduces the powerful voices of Henry David Thoreau and Nan Shepherd to find a much needed philosophical and poetic infusion to sustain environmental education and action. Fulford and Jamieson not only dwell sensitively with their literary companions, they attend to, document and reinvigorate environmental education with power and elegance. This is the first major work bringing Shepherd and Thoreau together, where Fulford and Jamieson remind us that through careful reinterpretation, accounting and dwelling, we can return to discussions of greater purposes than are typically discussed in education: to get leave to live and to do so deliberately."

Lewis Stockwell is Principal Lecturer in Outdoor Learning and Philosophy of Education, University of Hertfordshire.

"In our world of a shared but diverse environmental crisis, Fulford and Jamieson offer a compelling invitation to dwell in a unique educational experience, a space of eco-poetics, of activism. Their elegant text, of engaged writing and relationship, personal and literary, and threading across millennia, cultures, and genders, is led by revenants, Thoreau and Shepard. The message, from the natural world of specters, is an evocative model for today that all can adopt and adapt no matter their home or political form of response."

Lynda Stone, Holton Distinguished Professor Emerita, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Tartalomjegyzék:

PART 1: Education and Environmental Crises in Context: Tracing Themes of Connection and Disconnectedness

Chapter 1:                     Thoreau and Shepherd: Beginnings

Chapter 2:                     Environmental Emergencies in Literature: Crises

Chapter 3:                     Environmental Activism and Environmental Apathy: Disconnectedness

Chapter 4:                     Education and the Natural World: Reconnecting

PART 2: Thoreau and Shepherd as Poetic Environmental Activists: Tracing Ideas of Dwelling and Attention

Chapter 5:                     Being with, and in, Nature through Thoreau and Shepherd: Dwelling

Chapter 6:                     A Care-ful Attention to the Natural Environment: Documenting

Chapter 7:                     Thoreau and Shepherd: Towards Poetic Environmental Activism 

PART 3: Finding Hope: Possibilities for Poetic Environmental Activism in Contemporary Education

Chapter 8:                     Poetic Environmental Activism in Contemporary Education