Global Climate Education and Its Discontents Using Drama to Forge a New Way Book Launch

When and Where

Friday, January 24, 2025 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Performance Studio
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
79 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E5

Description

The CDTPS will host a reception for the launch of Director Kathleen Gallagher and Post-Doctoral Fellow Christine Balt's new book, Global Climate Education and Its Discontents Using Drama to Forge a New Way. 

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary, and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency. Based on a six-year ethnographic research study taking place with teachers, artists, community leaders, and young people globally, and taking its lead from the following provocation – can performance become a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? – the book explores the unique conceptual and pedagogical ‘discontents’ of climate education across geographically and culturally distinct sites of learning. It also examines how artful engagement through drama pedagogies can open up more collective, critical, and hopeful forms of thinking and being. Read more on the Routledge webpage.

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79 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E5

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