{"id":4254,"date":"2025-01-05T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=4254"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:40:53","slug":"february-6-global-climate-education-and-its-discontents-using-drama-to-forge-a-new-way","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/february-6-global-climate-education-and-its-discontents-using-drama-to-forge-a-new-way\/","title":{"rendered":"February 6: \u201cGlobal Climate Education and Its Discontents Using Drama to Forge a New Way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 6: \u201cGlobal Climate Education and Its Discontents Using Drama to Forge a New Way\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">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. Can performance become a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? \u2013 The book explores the unique conceptual and pedagogical \u2018discontents\u2019 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Distinguished Professor, Kathleen Gallagher studies theatre as a powerful medium for expression by young people of their experiences and understandings. She has published numerous books and articles on pedagogy and socially-engaged theatre-making.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"u-center-text\">\n\t<p>\n\t\t<a class=\"button__red button__red--solid\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/MbyX8n7OR0Kah9cq__IUDQ\" target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register Here<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>Actions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdtps.utoronto.ca\/research-publications\/faculty-publications\/global-climate-education-and-its-discontents-using-drama\">Global Climate Education and Its Discontents Using Drama to Forge a New Way<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Be in nature<\/li>\n<li>Explore with your body and move your body<\/li>\n<li>Hold space in nature<\/li>\n<li>Take up an &#8220;Analog Hobby&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Unstick&#8221; and &#8220;unlearn&#8221; habits of how we are in relation to everything around us. Find new ways forward.<\/li>\n<li>Organize a workshop to explore the themes of climate education through drama. This could involve practical activities, group discussions, and performance exercises.<\/li>\n<li>Involve the broader community in the conversation by hosting public performances, discussions, or exhibitions that highlight the work done in the event and its relevance to socio-ecological justice.<\/li>\n<li>Establish a collaborative group or network of educators, artists, and community leaders who are interested in continuing the work of integrating drama into climate education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Resource List<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kathleen Gallagher Books and Articles:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first\"><span class=\"views-field views-field-title\"><span class=\"field-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdtps.utoronto.ca\/research-publications\/faculty-publications\/global-climate-education-and-its-discontents-using-drama\">Global Climate Education and Its Discontents Using Drama to Forge a New Way<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"views-field views-field-nothing\"><span class=\"field-content\">(Routledge :\u00a0<span class=\"date-display-single\">2025<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\"><span class=\"views-field views-field-title\"><span class=\"field-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdtps.utoronto.ca\/research-publications\/faculty-publications\/harnessing-speculative-fiction-reimage-and-rewrite-our\">Harnessing Speculative Fiction to Reimage and Rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"views-field views-field-nothing\"><span class=\"field-content\">(Taylor &amp; Francis :\u00a0<span class=\"date-display-single\">2024<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"views-row views-row-4 views-row-even\"><span class=\"views-field views-field-title\"><span class=\"field-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdtps.utoronto.ca\/research-publications\/faculty-publications\/youth-and-play-world-making-real-and-imagined\">Youth and Play: World-Making in the Real and the Imagined<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"views-field views-field-nothing\"><span class=\"field-content\">(Springer :\u00a0<span class=\"date-display-single\">2023<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>Why Theatre Matters<\/em> (UTP, 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Websites:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oise.utoronto.ca\/dr\/\">Drama Research at UoT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oise.utoronto.ca\/dr\/publications\/\">Publications from Drama Research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Plays:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Contingency Plan<\/em>. 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Steve Waters<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/broadwaylicensing.com\/plays-for-earth-day\/\">Plays That Will Inspire You for Earth Day!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oise.utoronto.ca\/dr\/youth-theatre-radical-hope\/towards-youth-media\/\">Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"Vnob4b\">\n<div class=\"HdbW6 MjUjnf VM6qJ\">\n<div class=\"hHq9Z\">\n<div data-hveid=\"CA0QAA\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjA94-PnLWLAxVqHDQIHY7uAVUQlcAGegQIDRAA\">\n<div class=\"KsRP6\">\n<div class=\"MDY31c\">\n<div class=\"nwVKo\">\n<div class=\"r2VLS WAvXif\">\n<div data-ias=\"false\">\n<div class=\"y1yadf\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"GRl5yb a8pxAe\">\n<div class=\"Vnob4b\">\n<div id=\"JTPWx\" role=\"tablist\" data-hveid=\"CA4QAA\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"GCSyeb iNlBQe\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 6: \u201cGlobal Climate Education and Its Discontents Using Drama to Forge a New Way\u201d 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. 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