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In Practice: Teaching Environmental American Studies in a Time of Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2021

EITHNE QUINN
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
ELSA DEVIENNE
Affiliation:
Northumbria University
J. T. ROANE
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
ALEXIS YOUNG
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
CHRISTINE OKOTH
Affiliation:
King's College London
JOHN WILLS
Affiliation:
University of Kent
FRANCES HENDERSON
Affiliation:
University of Manchester

Extract

I have been thinking a lot about environmental pedagogy in American studies, especially since I started teaching a third-year interdisciplinary course, Climate Change & Culture Wars, which focusses on the post-1970s US. I wanted to know more about how others are approaching the topic as we face up to looming climate and ecological collapse. University teachers and learners across disciplines are reckoning with it, but what's going on in American studies in Britain, and what can we learn from each other and from teachers elsewhere? How is the crisis impacting on the framing of our disciplinary fields and how are we incorporating its intellectual and practical demands into pedagogic spaces and syllabi?

Type
In Practice
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the British Association for American Studies

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