Citation
Owens, D. (2002), "Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation", Environmental Management and Health, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 225-225. https://doi.org/10.1108/emh.2002.13.2.225.4
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
“Composition and Sustainability” is a stimulus for any educator who wants to teach or plan curriculum with the long view in mind. While sustainability has become a dominating force in a range of disciplines, it has yet to play a substantive role in English studies. Derek Owens argues that, in light of worsening environmental crises and accelerating social injustices, we need to use sustainability as a way to structure courses and curricula, and that composition studies, with its inherent cross‐disciplinarity and its unique function in students’ academic lives, can play a key role in giving sustainability a central place in students’ thinking and in the curriculum as a whole. Visit at: http://ncte.org/books/owens.shtml for more information.