Poetry and Sustainability in Education (Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment)

This edited collection offers educators at all levels a range of practical and theoretical approaches to teaching poetry in the context of environmental sustainability. The contributors are keenly aware of the urgency facing the planets ecosystemsecosystems which include all of usand this volume makes the case that teaching poetry is not a luxury. Each of the books three sections works from a specific angle and register. Part I focuses on pragmatic approaches to classroom activities and curricular choices; Part II considers policies and politics, including the role of the UNs Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) program; and Part III takes a widescreen view, exploring the philosophical issues that arise when poems are integrated into sustainability curricula. This book exemplifies how poetry empowers readers to think imaginatively about how to sustainand why to sustainour world, its resources, and its beauty. Sandra Lee Kleppe is Professor of English-language literature at Inland Norway University. She is author of The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current (2013), editor/co-author of Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century (2015), and co-editor/co-author of Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan: Disciplines, Classrooms, Contexts (with Angela Sorby, 2018). Angela Sorby is Professor of English at Marquette University. Her prior books include Distance Learning (1998); Schoolroom Poets (2005); Bird Skin Coat (2009); The Sleeve Waves (2014); Over the River and Through the Wood (with Karen Kilcup, 2013); and Poetry and Pedagogy Across the Lifespan (with Sandra Kleppe, 2018) Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Why Poetry? Chapter Summaries Rhizomatic Connections References Part I: Learning with the Biosphere: Birds, Bees, Flowers and Trees 1: Ways of Listening: Birdsong, Poetry, and Sustainability in Education I II III References 2: Hanging on for the Bees: Teaching with Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems Winter Is for Women Silent Spring and Appalling Noise Bee Meetings as Metamorphoses Plath’s Poetry of Pollination Takeaways Appendix 1: Activities Appendix 2: Resources Bees: Books, Sites and Organizations for Learning Ecofeminism, Betty Friedan, and Rachel Carson Sylvia Plath and the Bee Poem Sequence References 3: “These Things Never Happened but Are Always”: Why Tree Poems Matter Introduction What Does Sustainability Mean for Education? “These Things Never Happened But Are Always”: Why Tree Poems Matter2 Pound and Environmentalist Ethics Pound’s Biospheric Egalitarianism Yeats and Pound: The Suffering Ego Versus Self-realization Biospheric Egalitarianism and Responsibility Conclusion References 4: Listening to Animals for a Change: On Teaching Animal Poetry from a Critical Rhetorical Perspective Introduction A Rhetorical View of Animal Poetry Teaching Poetry from a Critical Rhetorical Perspective Teaching Methods Choice of Animal Poems As a Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly The Fish Conclusion References 5: Indigenous Poetry and Sustainability: Troubling Anthropocene Logic Through Kinship and Holistic Care Introduction: Poetry as Sustainable Pedagogy Indigenous Poetics Encircling References Part II: Poetic Literacy and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) 6: Poetic Learning for a Sustainable Future: Transforming Our Collective Story Quality Education and Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development Poetic Learning, Collective Imagination, and Meaningful Relatedness Finding the Language of Sustainable Development Through Poetry Conclusion References 7: “Whose Action Is No Stronger than a Flower?”: Poetry, Education, and Environmental Crisis References 8: First World War Poetry and Historical Literacy Introduction Historical Literacy and Sustainability The First World War First World War Poetry “The Soldier” “Dulce et decorum est” “Does It Matter?” Putting War Poetry to Use in the Development of Historical Literacy and Sustainable Education Concluding Remarks References 9: Ecopoetry, Pedagogical Encounters, and Holding Absence Present: Ideas for Classrooms Encounter: An Introduction Ecopoetry: A Genre in-becoming Opening (to) Otherness and Holding Absence Present Ideas for Ecopoetic Writing in Classroom Contexts Activity One: Warm-up Activity Two: Choosing an Encounter for Staging in a Poem Activity Three: Emphasise Contingency Activity Four: Writing the Encounter-as-Sensations Activity Five: Listing Questions for the Other Activity Six: Shifting Voice and Perspective Activity Seven: Playing with Layout Adapting the Ideas for Classroom Contexts Concluding Thoughts Appendix: Sample Ecopoem with Holes References Part III: Poets, Philosophers and the Planet 10: Ecologies of the Classroom in an Existential Crisis: Félix Guattari’s Ecosophical Aesthetics and Teaching Poetry Sustainability and Development Within the Classroom Environment An Ecosophical Approach to Reading Poetry in the Classroom An Ecosophical Approach to Writing Poetry in the Classroom Conclusion References 11: “Right Has Just Left”: Rising to the Occasion of the Anthropocene Through the Multilingual and Transmedial Poetic Work of Cia Rinne Activating Human Responsibility Deleuze, Guattari, and Language Barriers Bordering and Transmediality The Emancipatory Potential of Poetic Otherness Pedagogical Challenges: Centrifugal Solutions References 12: The Message of Poetry or Poetry as Messenger: The Poetics of Sustainability in the Pedagogical Context Introduction Poetry After Auschwitz The Poetics of Sustainability Thematic and Formal Reading The Sound of Different Meanings Conclusion References 13: Towards a Sustainable Imagination: Reflections on Olav H. Hauge and the Teaching of Poetry Poet and Fruit Grower The Cell Eco-cognitive Criticism and Sustainability Poetic Passages The Animation of the World Dweller and Wayfarer Poetry in School Sustainable Discourses References Index