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    Ecological education: Pedagogy of awareness, transformation and action through children’s literature in an ESL classroom
    (2015-05) De Jesus, Annerys; Román Pérez, Rosa I.; College of Arts and Sciences - Arts; Irizarry Rodríguez, José M.; Orama Meléndez, Rebeca; Brown, Anderson; Rivera, Rosita L.; Department of English; Carrero Figueroa, Rebecca
    This research investigation explores possible ways of formally introducing ecological education to sixth grade Puerto Rican learners through children and young adult literature. The purpose of this project is to explore the contemporary ecological crisis while creating awareness and transformation for future learners in order to prevent and reverse ecological collapse. This is done though content based learning by applying Dewey’s hands-on pedagogy, Freire’s critical thinking pedagogy and Grossberg’s popular culture pedagogy to the fairytale Little Red Cap, the modern fable The Lorax and the Japanese comic Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. These texts are analyzed in depth by using ecological literacy, literary ecology, and ecological criticism to acquire a better understanding of how popular culture portrays nature and scientific information students can learn from the texts as well as how an academic community is built upon knowledge. Moreover, this project provides teachers a model of how the topic of ecology is integrated into the current Puerto Rican ESL curriculum through lesson plans—on human ecology and ecology—based on each literary text analyzed to promote transformative learning experiences and actions.