Poetic Environmental Activism and Education by Amanda Fulford... - 9781032697413

Poetic Environmental Activism and EducationThoreau and Shepherd for Times of Ecological Crises\nAuthor(s): Amanda Fulford, Victoria Jamieson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032697413, 978-1032697413\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nBringing together scholarship from North America and Europe, the book draws on Thoreau and Shepherds literary and philosophical sources to support a conceptual understanding of educations role in how we think about, understand, and tackle the climate crisis. Chapters trace the idea of poetic environm.