Ioana Capatu
University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria, Campus Baden
Carmen Sippl
University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria, Campus Baden
With Literature to CultureNature Literacy
Experiencing Human-Nature Relationships through Perspective-Shifting
CultureNature Literacy (CNL) as Anthropocene Competence enables readers to perceive nature and the environment from unfamiliar perspectives. They experience how a wolf and a she-bear form a support group because they can no longer bear the tension between the cuteness of stuffed animals and their relentless pursuit. They share the forward-looking thoughts of a seed about its possible, probable, and desirable futures. They look back into the deep planetary past with a stone and seek a partner for the fungus in the Wood Wide Web. The playful texts of the author Melanie Laibl invite readers to pick up the creative thread and continue weaving it in their own thinking and creating. The goal is to perceive and appreciate nature as a living being—and to understand ourselves as part of a larger whole. This CNL learning scenario presents a literary didactic example of perspective-taking as an aspect of literary learning.
#Human-nature-relationships #Perspective shift #literary learning #appreciation #value development