Abstract
The recent cancellation of the COP 25 UN Climate Conference to be hosted by Chile because of massive protests highlighted some social problems and inequality. There are some issues in the conference’s agenda: the neoliberal extractivist market-based policies ruling the country in the last 30 years. In the context of a project that aims at introducing environmental literacy in language teacher education, we formulate the following question: How do we link social change to environmental literacy? We here report results of a discourse analysis of a corpus of eco journals by a group of students in an English teacher education program. Attention is paid to knowledge, attitudes, and behavior as constitutive components of environmental literacy. The purpose is to identify the connections between social change and environmental issues in the students’ discourse. Results can serve as part of the foundations of a curriculum in initial teacher education that includes environmental literacy. Problems at the crossroads of ecological education and social change may well serve as cross curricular objectives for the education of a new humanity.
Presenters
Miguel FariasFull Professor, Linguistics and Literature, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile Andrea Campana
Professor, Literature and Linguistics, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile
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Environmental Literacy, Language Teacher Education, Social Change, Discourse Analysis
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