Overview
- Offers a unique concept for the inclusion of eco-documentaries in language education
- Presents a transdisciplinary approach spanning ecomedia, global citizenship, multiliteracies and language learning
- Provides transferable insights to broader contexts of film pedagogy and global citizenship education
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment (PSEE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a unique framework for the inclusion of ecomedia in the English language classroom to help learners cultivate global citizenship. Foregrounding learner agency in a world at risk, the author proposes a framework that hinges on human rights and critical eco-cosmopolitanism to help learners position themselves in discourses on climate change and act for transformation. The book discusses eco-documentaries as multimodal, factional texts against the background of cutting-edge research, refuting a definition based on the binary of fiction and non-fiction. Translating the insights gained from this discussion to the language education context, learners are conceptualised as active designers of meaning making when engaged with eco-documentaries. Based on this discussion, the book puts forth an innovative, multiliteracies-informed concept which is embedded in a sustainability-oriented pedagogy of hope, which encourages learners to learn and practice languages of hope and advocacy. The book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of ecopedagogy, sustainability education, global citizenship education and cultural learning, film pedagogy and language education, as well as language educators.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ricardo Römhild is a researcher and lecturer in the English Department at the University of Münster, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Citizenship, Ecomedia and English Language Education
Authors: Ricardo Römhild
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44674-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44673-3Published: 15 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44676-4Due: 15 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44674-0Published: 14 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-6519
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6527
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 346
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental and Sustainability Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Cultural Theory, Screen Studies, Language Education