By inquiring into the transformative potential of literary writing and reading as well as the
notion of transformative learning itself this book explores the cultural dimensions of
environmental change and underlines the importance of teaching English literature in this
context. It shows that despite the popularity of the transformative in policy documents
curricula and research on subject-specific pedagogies we are still only at the beginning of
understanding the potential of literature when it comes to transformative inclusive and
sustainable education. Presenting research findings and teaching methodologies that probe into
the potential of global and transcultural learning inclusive education and interdisciplinary
takes on transformative education from hermeneutic as well as empirical vantage points it
offers orientation and inspiration for educators equally interested in transformative change
and the specific affordances of fiction. Table of Contents ROMAN BARTOSCH In 'Interesting
Times': Classroom Diversity and the Great Transformation ......................................
1 Teaching Transformation: Affect Agency Ambiguity and Scale JÜRGEN WEHRMANN Facing the
Posthuman Horizon: Global Education and Teaching Science Fiction in the EFL Classroom
........................................... 15 MAREIKE TÖDTER The Political in Sustainable
Matters: A Case for Controversy and Plurality in the EFL Classroom
............................................................... 39 SVENJA ROSENAU Tolerance of
Ambiguity and Sustainability-Related Competencies in the EFL Classroom
............................................................ 65 ROMAN BARTOSCH Scaling Crises:
Theories Tasks and Topics for Transformative Sustainability Education in English
..................................... 77 Reading Transformation: From Early English to Higher
Education CHRISTIAN LUDWIG & FRANK ERIK POINTNER Where were you when the sky cracked open? -
Responses to Hurricane Katrina in Popular Culture ...................................... 93
CLAUDIA DEETJEN Teaching Young Adult Climate Change Fiction in the EFL Classroom: Saci Lloyd's
The Carbon Diaries 2015 2017 ........... 107 CHRISTIANE HANSEN Fictions of Disaster: Climate
Change and the Imaginary in a Framework of Transformative Literacy
.................................................. 125 MARTA JANACHOWSKA-BUDYCH Education for
Sustainable Development with Texts of Migration Literature: A Case Study in German-Polish
Educational Context ................................... 143 Notes on Contributors
................................................................................... 159
