Crafting a Sense of Response-ability: Examining Children's Coastal Calls to Action Across Three Communities

• In Event: Instructional practices and teacher supports to promote social justice and advocacy in literacy

Abstract

Guided by a critical literacies orientation with an eye toward child-centered approaches, the authors outline how they collaboratively developed a series of seasonal kits that included hands-on inquiry activities related to the climate catastrophe. Closely examining children’s visual crafts, the authors challenge commonplace understandings that children are incapable of and disinterested in serious conversations about climatic shifts.

Authors

• Cassie J. Brownell, University of Toronto

• Kathleen Schenkel, San Diego State University

• Jon Michael Wargo, University of Michigan