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English and Sustainable Development
Dr Eve Bearne, FEA
Senior Research Associate
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
Professor Andrew Stables
Professor of Education and Philosophy
University of Bath
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