A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety and the Existential Toolkit - by Jennifer Atkinson & Sarah Jaquette Ray (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This two-book set provides essential resources for climate change education--ideal for teachers and students of environmental studies, sustainability, and social justice.

A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is written for climate-generation students--millennials and Gen Z--who are navigating the emotional and social challenges of climate change.
- Practical focus that empowers readers to move beyond eco-guilt, prevent burnout, and build resilience
- Ready-to-assign text that supports student learning and classroom discussions

The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators provides instructors and TAs with a toolkit to build their climate justice and resilience courses.
- Classroom-ready teaching strategies, lesson plans, and activities
- Interdisciplinary approaches and student reflections
- Integrates emotions, critical thinking, and justice-centered pedagogy

This bundled set forms a comprehensive toolkit for climate change education, giving teachers practical resources to assign in the classroom and students a guide for building resilience and engaging in climate justice.

From the Back Cover

"Synthesises . . . a series of strategies that can help people of any age to play the long game of fighting for climate justice." -- Australian Journal of Environmental Education

"Even the most senior, experienced educators among us . . . will find something new or provocative for their teaching methods. Dig in." -- Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

"Educators who are daunted by their students' climate anxiety, despair, or outrage, and instructors who feel like throwing up their hands at the complexity of what it means to teach well in the polycrisis, will find many of their concerns addressed . . . chock full of pedagogical interventions you can try in the classroom."--Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread

"We must better equip students for this time of trouble and transformation. Here, you'll find approaches to do so in abundance."--Katharine K. Wilkinson, coeditor of All We Can Save and lead writer of Drawdown

"The way I think, teach, and feel about climate change has been permanently and positively altered by the extraordinary wisdom embodied in this powerful work of deep reflection, care, and healing."--David N. Pellow, author of What Is Critical Environmental Justice?

"It would be foolish not to freak out over climate change. But it would be sad if that despair kept you from working hard on this crisis, not to mention enjoying life on what is still a beautiful planet. This book has some wise strategies for finding a useful balance."--Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?