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 BARTOSCH
In 'Interesting Times':
Classroom Diversity and the Great Transformation ...................................... 1

Teaching Transformation: Affect, Agency, Ambiguity, and Scale

JÜRGEN WEHRMANN
Facing the Posthuman Horizon: Global Education and
Teaching Science Fiction in the EFL Classroom ........................................... 15

MAREIKE TÖDTER
The Political in Sustainable Matters: A Case for Controversy
and Plurality in the EFL Classroom ............................................................... 39

SVENJA ROSENAU
Tolerance of Ambiguity and Sustainability-Related
Competencies in the EFL Classroom ............................................................ 65

ROMAN BARTOSCH
Scaling Crises: Theories, Tasks and Topics for
Transformative 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 DEETJEN
Teaching Young Adult Climate Change Fiction
in the EFL Classroom: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015/2017 ........... 107

CHRISTIANE HANSEN
Fictions of Disaster: Climate Change and the Imaginary
in a Framework of Transformative Literacy .................................................. 125

MARTA JANACHOWSKA-BUDYCH
Education for Sustainable Development
with Texts of Migration Literature:
A Case Study in German-Polish Educational Context ................................... 143

Notes on Contributors ................................................................................... 159