Poetic Environmental Activism and Education: Thoreau and Shepherd for Times of Ecological Crises [Hardcover]

PART 1: Education and Environmental Crises in Context: Tracing Themes of Connection and Disconnectedness

Chapter 1: ??????????????????? Thoreau and Shepherd: Beginnings

Chapter 2: ??????????????????? Environmental Emergencies in Literature: Crises

Chapter 3:???????????????????? Environmental Activism and Environmental Apathy: Disconnectedness

Chapter 4:???????????????????? Education and the Natural World: Reconnecting

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PART 2: Thoreau and Shepherd as Poetic Environmental Activists: Tracing Ideas of Dwelling and Attention

Chapter 5: ??????????????????? Being with, and in, Nature through Thoreau and Shepherd: Dwelling

Chapter 6: ??????????????????? A Care-ful Attention to the Natural Environment: Documenting

Chapter 7: ??????????????????? Thoreau and Shepherd: Towards Poetic Environmental Activism?

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PART 3: Finding Hope: Possibilities for Poetic Environmental Activism in Contemporary Education

Chapter 8:???????????????????? Poetic Environmental Activism in Contemporary Education

Bringing together the works of 19^th?and 20^th?century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd, the book discovers a common approach of poetic forms of writing that enact kinds of poetic environmental activism, and in doing so, re-position them in the context of current environmental crises.

A beautifully written and compelling account of the lives and environmental literature of Henry Thoreau and Anna Shepherd. It explores the intricate relationship between dwelling sensitively in communion with their New England and Scottish landscapes, care-fully observing nature, and documenting environmelS'