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2018
Volume 102, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

This piece proposes a framework for integrating environmental education by leveraging young adult climate fiction to recognize, question, and evaluate environmental issues and social justice.

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