Children and Mother Nature

Storytelling for a Glocalized Environmental Pedagogy
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39980-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 90 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

It is an old, yet relevant, argument that education needs to focus more on real-world issues in students’ lives and communities. Nevertheless, conventional school curricula in many countries create superficial boundaries to separate natural and social worlds. A call for science learning approaches that acknowledge societal standpoints accumulate that human activities are driving environmental and evolutionary change which has lead scholars to investigate how different societies respond to environmental change.

Children and Mother Nature is a multilingual volume that represents indigenous knowledges from various ethnic, linguistic, geographical, and national groups of educators and students through storytelling. Authors have identified indigenous stories, fables, and folk tales with a theme of human-nature interaction and facilitated storytelling sessions with groups of students in K–8 grade (5–14 years old) in Turkey, Greece, US, Jamaica, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Chinese and Korean language speaking communities in the US. Students have discussed and rewritten/retold the stories collaboratively and illustrated their own stories. All student-told stories are presented in the original language along with an English translation. This volume provides authentic materials for teachers to use in their classrooms and could also be of interest to educational, literary, and environmental researchers to conduct comparative and international studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aghasaleh, Rouhollah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Gesundheitspädagogik, Umweltpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Ajay Sharma

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Rouhollah Aghasaleh

1 "Nasreddin Hodja and Walnut Tree": A Turkish Indigenous Story about Human-Nature Interaction

Zeynep Temiz, Guliz Karaarslan Semiz and Simge Yilmaz

2 From So Real to Sorrel: Anancy Storytelling, Jamaican Folk Tales, and the Grand Market

Natalie S. King, Nadine Ebri and Ulett Williams

3 Yu the Great Managed the Flood

Xiaoli Gong, Martina D. Booker, Janiya A. Brown, Gabrielle C. Mann and Alexander M. Gastfield

4 Retelling of the Magic Spring: A Preschool Perspective on Water, Greed, and the Human-Nature Relationship

MinSoo Kim-Bossard, Lauren Madden, Louise Ammentorp and Tabitha Dell¡¯Angelo

5 Representing Cultural Values through Children¡¯s Stories: A Perspective from Saudi Arabia

Amani K. H. Alghamdi and Ibtesam Hussain

6 "Yannis and the Forty Dragons": A Traditional Greek Folktale to Teach Environmental Awareness

Nausica Kapsala, Apostolia Karagianni and Evangelia Mavrikaki

7 "The Theft of the Fire": Fostering Awareness about Indigenous Culture through a Gurani Myth

Philipe Pereira Borba de Araujo and Marco Antonio Margarido Costa

8 Notes for Living on Planet Earth: Science, Self, and Society in Second Grade

Dawnene D. Hassett, Steffenie Williams, Scott Enger, Marilee Cronin and John Porco

Glossary of Terms: Historical and Folklore Characters, Natural Phenomena, Geographical Locations, and Natural Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Rouhollah Aghasaleh, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate at Georgia State University. His scholarship lays on an intersection of critical science education, cultural studies of curriculum, and new materialist feminism that addresses the issues of equity in teaching and learning.