Sustainability Teaching for Impact

“A unique and distinctive compendium of high impact material for teachers and leaders alike wanting to make a long-lasting difference in the hearts and minds of their students” Professor Walter Leal, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report. ""Sustainability Teaching for Impact offers an innovative, practical guide to using drama in higher education to inspire and engage students in sustainability. With step-by-step instructions from experienced educators, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to integrate creative, interactive teaching methods into their classroom."" Professor Marco Rieckmann, University of Vechta, Germany “A great book to get started in drama work on a vital topic and make a deeper impact through personal experience. This book should be in the daily use of every teacher in higher education!” Tuija Leena Viirret, Open University of University of Jyväskylä, Finland “When we are engaged emotionally as well as intellectually, teaching and learning is far more impactful. This book offers a wonderful route into using Drama and connecting students emotionally in their learning for sustainability.” Emily Reid, Artistic Director, Eco Drama, UK ""Sustainability Teaching for Impact. How to Inspire and Engage Students Using Drama is a practical and accessible guide that empowers educators to use applied drama and performance arts to inspire and engage students in sustainability, regardless of their prior experience with these methods. This invaluable resource equips university teachers with creative, interactive techniques that make sustainability education dynamic and impactful across all disciplines"". Vassilis Zakopoulos, Assistant Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece “A terrific set of resources and ideas for teaching sustainability across the disciplines; I will be using this book all the time” Professor Liz Schafer, Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Shakespeare and (Eco-)Performance History “How do we energize and connect the coming generation for expansive climate action? Sustainability Teaching for Impact is a book bursting with ideas and imagination for using play to discover alternatives to the current climate crisis. The many contributors to this book provide a rich array of performance-based opportunities for imagining and rehearsing change. Embodying new ideas through drama provides a lively and fun way to rehearse and improve upon ideas before resources are invested. The many lessons in this book are a practice of freedom from the inevitability of gloom and doom narratives towards an active assertion of constructive hope.” Professor of Beth Osnes-Stoedefalke, University of Colorado Boulder US, author of Performance for Resilience, Co-director of Inside the Greenhouse-Creative Climate Communication, Executive Committee and Founding Member of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavioral Change, Co-director: Side x Side: Art-Science Connections, Co-founder of SPEAK supporting young women in empowering their voices for self and civic advocacy.