Table of Contents

List of Contributors Foreword, Suresh Canagarajah (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies, Penn State University, USA) Introduction: TESOL and Sustainability, John Katunich (Dickinson College, USA) & Jason Goulah (DePaul University, USA) Part I. Foundations for Sustainability in TESOL: Cultural Perspectives, Products, and Practices 1. Earth Democracy as Empowerment for TESOL Students and Educators: Though the Crisis Speaks English, englishes Can Become a Commons Language of Sustainability, M. Garrett Delavan (California State University, San Marcos, USA) 2. Re-orienting Language as a Commons: Dispositions for English Language Teaching in the “Second Watershed”, John Katunich (Dickinson College, USA) 3. Post-Truth Pedagogy for TESOL: Our Collective Responsibility for the Two-Legged, the Four-Legged, the Flyers, the Swimmers, the Multi-Legged and the Stationary, Sandra Kouritzin (University of Manitoba, Canada) Part II. Climate Change and Place as TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy 4. TESOL into the Anthropocene: Climate Migration as Curriculum and Pedagogy in ESL, Jason Goulah (DePaul University, USA) 5. A Place-Based Ecopedagogy for an English for Academic Purposes Program, Kevin Eyraud (Utah Valley University, USA) 6. Cross-Cultural Communication in Tourism Encounters and Implications for Sustainable TESOL, Bal Krishna Sharma (University of Idaho, USA) 7. Saving the World without (Eco)Justice? English-Language Voluntourism, Rural Education, and Root Metaphors of Success, Cori Jakubiak (Grinnell College, USA) & Alan Hastings (Central College, USA) Coda: The Incommensurability of English Language Pedagog[uer]y and Sustainability: Spirits and Protein, Satoru Nakagawa (University of Manitoba, Canada) Index

Promotional Information

Argues that it is incumbent on the TESOL field to re-orient professional practice to drive cultural changes in how human beings relate to the environment

About the Author

Jason Goulah is Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and Director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education at DePaul University, USA. John Katunich is Associate Director of the Writing Program at Dickinson College, USA.

Reviews

The climate crisis is far too important to be ignored by any profession or occupation. This book challenges TESOLers to understand our profession’s role in the climate crisis and to act forcefully and effectively to make that role a positive one.
*George Jacobs, President of the Centre for a Responsible Future, Singapore*

TESOL and Sustainability is poetically articulated, politically conceived, and darefully envisioned. For those who are interested in how Mother Earth is ‘talking’ to us, this is a must read. The urgency of the moment, made extremely clearly in this book, makes an earth-centred pedagogical approach to English language teaching and learning more pressing than ever. If we cannot imagine what we do not know, this is a compass pointing to a new and hopeful direction.
*Awad Ibrahim, Professor of Education and Applied Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada*

The question of sustainability is much more than a conversation topic for ESL classes. Rather it is an issue for discussion among all of us involved in English language education. Is English language teaching itself a sustainable enterprise within the Anthropocene? How do we understand our complicity as English language educators with the human and non-human changes now convulsing the planet? This book urges us to consider the interconnectedness of language, commons, place and eco-ethical consciousness.
*Alastair Pennycook, Distinguished Professor of Language, Society and Education, University of Technology Sydney, Australia*