Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation

Citation

(2002), "Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 3 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2002.24903bae.003

Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation

Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation

Derek OwensNational Council of Teachers of EnglishISBN 08141003762001

Keywords: Sustainable development, Curriculum, Teachers

Composition and Sustainability is a stimulus for any educator who wants to teach or plan curriculum with the long view in mind. While sustainability has become a dominating force in a range of disciplines, it has yet to play a substantive role in English studies. Derek Owens argues that, in light of worsening environmental crises and accelerating social injustices, we need to use sustainability as a way to structure courses and curricula, and that composition studies, with its inherent cross-disciplinarity and its unique function in students' academic lives, can play a key role in giving sustainability a central place in students' thinking and in the curriculum as a whole. Visit: ncte.org/books/owens.shtml for more information.