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2018
Volume 114, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

This essay outlines the opportunities and challenges of incorporating children’s literature as media for climate literacy instruction, with focuses on creating and working with Climate Lit literature entries and how this work can be adapted to secondary English classrooms.

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