Towards Transformative Literature Pedagogy

By inquiring into the transformative potential of literary writing and reading as well as the notion of transformative learning itself, this book explores the cultural dimensions of environmental change and underlines the importance of teaching English literature in this context. It shows that despite the popularity of the transformative in policy documents, curricula and research on subject-specific pedagogies, we are still only at the beginning of understanding the potential of literature when it comes to transformative, inclusive and sustainable education. Presenting research findings and teaching methodologies that probe into the potential of global and transcultural learning, inclusive education, and interdisciplinary takes on transformative education from hermeneutic as well as empirical vantage points, it offers orientation and inspiration for educators equally interested in transformative change and the specific affordances of fiction. Table of Contents ROMAN BARTOSCHIn 'Interesting Times':Classroom Diversity and the Great Transformation ...................................... 1 Teaching Transformation: Affect, Agency, Ambiguity, and Scale JÜRGEN WEHRMANNFacing the Posthuman Horizon: Global Education andTeaching Science Fiction in the EFL Classroom ........................................... 15 MAREIKE TÖDTERThe Political in Sustainable Matters: A Case for Controversyand Plurality in the EFL Classroom ............................................................... 39 SVENJA ROSENAUTolerance of Ambiguity and Sustainability-RelatedCompetencies in the EFL Classroom ............................................................ 65 ROMAN BARTOSCHScaling Crises: Theories, Tasks and Topics forTransformative Sustainability Education in English ..................................... 77 Reading Transformation: From Early English to Higher Education CHRISTIAN LUDWIG & FRANK ERIK POINTNER"Where were you when the sky cracked open?" -Responses to Hurricane Katrina in Popular Culture ...................................... 93 CLAUDIA DEETJENTeaching Young Adult Climate Change Fictionin the EFL Classroom: Saci Lloyd's The Carbon Diaries 2015/2017 ........... 107 CHRISTIANE HANSENFictions of Disaster: Climate Change and the Imaginaryin a Framework of Transformative Literacy .................................................. 125 MARTA JANACHOWSKA-BUDYCHEducation for Sustainable Developmentwith Texts of Migration Literature:A Case Study in German-Polish Educational Context ................................... 143 Notes on Contributors ................................................................................... 159