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Teaching Climate Change without Teaching Climate Change:

Teaching Climate Change without Teaching Climate Change:. The Ultimate International Issue? Scott Lankford Professor of English Foothill College. To/Too = Tautology. “I want to teach Climate Change… but it is just too ______________.”. 2015: Hottest Year in History.

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Teaching Climate Change without Teaching Climate Change:

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  1. Teaching Climate Change without Teaching Climate Change: The Ultimate International Issue? Scott Lankford Professor of English Foothill College

  2. To/Too = Tautology “I want to teach Climate Change… but it is just too ______________.”

  3. 2015: Hottest Year in History

  4. Oceans 30% More Acidic

  5. Great Barrier Reef 93% Dead

  6. Climate Change across the Curriculum Project Win/Spr 2016 • English 1A Honors College Composition • English 1B Honors Critical Thinking, Literature, and Research • English 1C Honors Advanced Composition

  7. Climate Change Across the Curriculum

  8. Political/Economic Approach:

  9. Climate Justice Approach “If slavery were an American state…it would be the world’s third-largest producer of CO2, after China and the United States.” –Kevin Bales

  10. STEM/BIO Approach

  11. Climate Lit Approach

  12. Climate Art Approach

  13. Critical Thinking Approach:

  14. Confirmation Bias

  15. Biased Assimilation

  16. Assimilation Bias

  17. Socially Contructed Silence EviatarZerubavel, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University… is an expert on the sociology of socially constructed silence, which, he says, is as much a part of our communication as speech, ‘like a substance that fills in the pauses and cracks and crannies of our discourse.’” Marshall, George (2014-08-19). Don't Even Think About It (p. 82).

  18. Meta-Silence “I ask Zerubavelhow we can study a silence— how we can measure something that people do not recognize as being absent. He puts it this way: ‘We have not talked at all about zoological gardens. That is not because we are deliberately avoiding it; the subject has simply not come up in our conversation. I would call this inattention because we can easily explain why we have not talked about it. But disattention is something very different. That is when we deliberately fail to notice something and cannot even explain that silence.” --Marshall, George (2014-08-19). Don't Even Think About It (p. 82).

  19. The Elephant In the Room ‘Climate change isn’t the elephant in the room; it’s the elephant we’re all inside of.” –Bill Blakemore, CBS News

  20. Kushal V. Jain Foothill College “Climate Change: The New Grim Reaper” Examines the psychological correlation between how our brains deal with death and climate change.

  21. Tommy Tjandra Foothill College “Fueling the Fire We Want to Put Out: Indonesia and Climate Change”

  22. Foothill/NASA Earth Day 2016

  23. Civic Engagement Foothill/De Anza: 1st CC District to fully divest from Fossil Fuels.

  24. Links and Contacts Email lankfordscott@foothill.edu Facebook “Climate Changers” Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/550319298479598/ Scott Lankford’s Climate Change Across the Curriculum Blog http://mindsurfing.typepad.com/climate/ Sustainable Research and Governance FB Page (recommended ) https://www.facebook.com/groups/211890155491678/ EcoCriticsm, Cli-Fi, and Climate Change FB Page (recommended) https://www.facebook.com/groups/clifigroup/

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