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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: greening English in secondary schools?
Clark, You may be interested in talking to Sasha Matthewman, here in the UK, who is writing a book about ecocriticism in secondary education. Sasha, are you on this list? If not, I could forward this message. I'm not sure it should be set up as a conflict between Chaucer and nature writing, or tercets versus tanagers (nice alliterative pairing). In many ways, a literary education of the humanistic type that values close reading and a combination of intellectual and emotional response to texts is likely to be on the same side as ecocriticism, both confronting the industrial-instrumentalist account of education that is so dominant now. Richard Kerridge ________________________________ From: asle-owner@interversity.org on behalf of Clark Meyer Sent: Tue 09/09/2008 20:36 To: asle@interversity.org Subject: [asle] greening English in secondary schools? Greetings, everyone! I've been lurking on this list for a while now, and I'm interested in knowing more about might be happening at the secondary school level regarding the teaching of environmental literature. ASLE's focus seems to be higher education; is there anything resembling a comparable network for interested educators in middle and high schools? Any sort of movement afoot?
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