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37 Fostering Student Agency for Climate Justice through Vocational Exploration

© 2024 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2024 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND GRATITUDE ix
  4. INTRODUCTION Climate, Justice, and Emotions in the Classroom 1
  5. PART ONE Getting Started wit h Emotions in the Climate Justice Classroom
  6. 1 A Pedagogy for Emotional Climate Justice 15
  7. 2 Balancing Feelings and Action: Four Steps for Working with Climate-Related Emotions and Helping Each Student Find Their Calling 22
  8. 3 Transformative Psychological Approaches to Climate Education 31
  9. 4 From Existential Crisis to Action Planning: Building Individual and Community Resilience 42
  10. 5 Empathy and Care: Activities for Feeling Climate Change 49
  11. 6 The Emotional Impact Statemen 55
  12. 7 The Politics of Hope 59
  13. 8 Unfucking the World 74
  14. PART TWO Justice as Affective Pedagogy
  15. 9 Preparing Students to Navigate a Harrowing Educational Landscape: Accessibility and Inclusion for the Climate Justice Classroom 79
  16. 10 Photovoice for the Climate Justice Classroom 89
  17. 11 Leveraging Affect for Climate Justice 99
  18. 12 Infrastructure Affects: Registering Impressions of Mega-Dams 108
  19. 13 From Principles to Praxis: Exploring the Roots and Ramifications of the Environmental Justice Movement 116
  20. PART THREE Embodied Pedagogies
  21. 14 Working with Ecological Emotions: Mind Map and Spectrum Line 121
  22. 15 Building Somatic Awareness to Respond to Climate-Related Trauma 133
  23. 16 Using Poetry to Resist Alienation in the Climate Change Classroom 141
  24. 17 Prompts for Feeling-Thinking-Doing: Somatic Speculation for Climate Justice 147
  25. PART FOUR Futurity, Narrative, and the Imagination
  26. 18 The Tool of Imagination 153
  27. 19 Overcoming the Tragic 162
  28. 20 Practicing Speculative Futures 170
  29. 21 Cultivating Radical Imagination through Storytelling 177
  30. PART FIVE Unsettling Pedagogies
  31. 22 Critical Journalism, Creative Activism, and a Pedagogy of Discomfort 185
  32. 23 Why Worry? The Utility of Fear for Climate Justice 193
  33. 24 The Social Ecology of Responsibility 201
  34. 25 Beyond the Accountability Paradox 210
  35. PART SIX Joy and Resilience as Resistance
  36. 26 Joyful Climate Work: The Power of Play in a Time of Worry and Fear 219
  37. 27 Finding Hope in the Influence and Efficacy of Native/Indigenous Rights 228
  38. 28 Teaching Climate Change Resilience through Play 234
  39. 29 Building Capacity for Resilience in the Face of Environmental Shocks 240
  40. 30 Releasing Growth 247
  41. 31 Ecotopia versus Zombie Apocalypse 254
  42. PART SEVEN Community, Collaboration, and Kinship
  43. 32 Facilitating “R&R”: Student-Led Climate Resilience and Resistance 265
  44. 33 Climate Justice and Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum 272
  45. 34 Come for Climate, Stay for Community: Acting, Emoting, and Staying Together through the Climate Crisis 279
  46. 35 The Climate Imaginary 285
  47. PART EIGHT These Skills Are Needed in the World
  48. 36 How Will Climate Change Affect My Career? 293
  49. 37 Fostering Student Agency for Climate Justice through Vocational Exploration 299
  50. Appendix: Chapters Sorted by Themes 307
  51. List of Contributors 313
  52. Index 317
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