Full Description
This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary, and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency. Based on a six-year ethnographic research study taking place with teachers, artists, community leaders, and young people globally, and taking its lead from the following provocation - can performance become a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? - the book explores the unique conceptual and pedagogical 'discontents' of climate education across geographically and culturally distinct sites of learning. It also examines how artful engagement through drama pedagogies can open up more collective, critical, and hopeful forms of thinking and being.
The book is divided into two sections. The first part of the book, Local engagements and encounters, consists of chapters that conduct an in-depth appraisal of the local artistic work from each site, examining how matters of socio-ecological justice are given fresh urgency and complexity through the application of performance as pedagogy. The second part of the book, Pedagogical and artistic innovations, offers substantive praxis chapters on the drama-based pedagogical methods employed in the research. In these chapters, the world-building capacities of theatre-making offer up new, performative pedagogical orientations to the climate emergency beyond those of critique.
Global Climate Education and Its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way is valuable reading for scholars interested in the ontological and epistemological dimensions of the climate emergency, especially within and across the following fields: drama, theatre and performance studies, applied theatre and drama education, educational research, and children/childhood and youth studies. The book also invites a readership of teachers and teacher-educators who are interested in applying drama pedagogies in the classroom to explore matters of socio-ecological justice and the climate crisis.
Contents
Foreword: A Scientist's Perspective Introduction - Living the Contradictions: Theatre and the Arts as Deep, Life-sustaining Frameworks for Climate Education on an Exhausted Planet; Part 1: Local Engagements and Encounters 1. Building a Global Ensemble as Alternative Education for the Climate Emergency: Theatre Pedagogies for Activating Artist-citizens in Tkarón:to/Toronto 2. Esperanza Ambiental: Cultivating Environmental Hope in Bogotá through Pedagogies of Humility and Risk 3. Engaging Youth with the Climate Crisis: Playful Tactics for Dialogue and Devising in Coventry 4. Unravelling Narratives of Climate Change, Gender and Livelihood in Lucknow: An Ecofeminist Perspective 5. Towards a Glocalized Critical Sensory Pedagogy: Explorations of Heavy Industry and Climate (In)justice in Kaohsiung 6. The Tacit Knowledge of Environmental Experience: Theatre, Cultural Reckonings, and 'Publicing' in Greece 7. The Digital Dilemma: Navigating Place, Space, Relationships and Possibilities in Global Youth-based Climate Education Research; Part 2: Pedagogical and Artistic Innovations 8. Beyond the Public Service Announcement: Navigating Hard Facts and Dissident Feelings in the Climate Emergency through Verbatim Theatre 9. Performative Pedagogies and Creative Courage: Building New Worlds during the COVID-19 Pandemic 10. Exploring Resistance and Acceptance at the Threshold of the Future: Speculative Fiction and Human Desires 11. Virtual, Sonic Drama as Climate Crisis Pedagogy: Listening to the Environment to Better Understand our Place in the World 12. Fiction and Embodiment as Gateways to Explore Posthuman Togetherness 13. Provoking 'Eco-gladness': Movement across Four Drama Pedagogies 14. Attending to Settler-colonial and Indigenous Histories in Tkaronto/Toronto: 'Being in Common' and Acknowledging Land through Site-specific Performance; Afterword: Gifts from Locality
