Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Departing from the developing fields of ecocriticism and posthumanism, the present article is aimed at analysing the ecological and posthuman potential of picturebooks, and to show their potential in fostering ecological wisdom and awareness in the context of language education. In particular, the article will first describe and uncover the representation of the relationship between humans and natural non-humans, namely plants, animals, and the elements considered as belonging to nature in Western culture, in three picture books, written in Italian, English, and Spanish, through Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Then, it will briefly present the implications of this analysis in the design of a training course for foreign language teachers interested in teaching a language while educating for sustainability through the promotion of ecological thinking.
Author: Monica Peluso
Institution: University of Bologna
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
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OpenAlex ID: W4415430565