English and Sustainable Development

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• Ecocriticism
• 2. Matters of definition
• What is sustainable development?
• How does sustainable development relate to English?
• 3. Critical literacy
• What is this text about?
• How does the text work?
• Critical scrutiny of the internet
• 4. Developing understanding of environmental issues through texts
• Shakespeare and the environment
• Poetry and the natural world
• An interdisciplinary approach
• Environmental creative writing
• Images as backdrops to poems
• 5. Studying texts specifically concerned with the environment
• Disney – emotion and environment
• Complexity and ambiguity about the natural world and humans: Princess Mononoke
• 6. The creation of texts relating to environmental issues
• Talk: persuasion and argument
• Designed multimodal texts
• Case study: How words and images interact to persuade and inform
• The environment as text
• The urban environment
• Case study: Urban images
• The creation and enhancement of the environment
• Case study: Our environment
• The preservation of the environment
• Case study: Cross-curricular writing
• 7. Background paper: English and Sustainable Development, Andrew Stables