[Commlist] Call for Chapter Proposals -Climate in the Classroom: Reimagining Communication, Media and Journalism Pedagogy

*Call for Papers*

/_Climate in the Classroom: Reimagining Communication, Media and 
Journalism Pedagogy _/

We invite contributions to a forthcoming anthology from Intellect Books. 
/Climate in the Classroom: Reimagining Communication, Media and 
Journalism Pedagogy /will be the first book to propose practical and 
theoretically rich ways for communication and media instructors to teach 
about climate and environment.

While climate change affects us all, teaching which addresses it remains 
only sparsely scattered through the media, journalism, and 
communications curricula. In contrast to the thorough embedding of AI 
and digital media into communications teaching, climate change and the 
environment remains a separate silo, not a priority area in students' 
education. Yet, as students encounter climate change and the 
environmental impacts of communications infrastructure like data centres 
in their daily lives, they increasingly call on educators to address it 
(Thew et al 2021; SOS/NUS, n.d.).

Environmentally engaged media studies calls for a radical reorientation 
of our curricula (Keilbach & Pabiś-Orzeszyna, 2021). This anthology will 
provide an accessible guide for instructors who want to fill this gap 
but might feel unqualified, or who already teach environment and media 
and are seeking inspiration and community. The book will present 
commissioned essays from experts around the world who are pioneering the 
teaching of climate change in the media, journalism, and communications 
fields.

We suggest several avenues for this below:

  * *Encouraging student interest, empowerment, and engagement *
  * *Teaching the next generation of climate communicators*
  * Challenging the illusion of a “clean” or dematerialised media
    industry, including in the classroom
  * Foregrounding climate change as a social fact, not just a 
scientific one
  * Actively confronting climate denial, greenwashing, and silencing
  * Approaching institutionalized resistance to climate teaching
  * Elevating the expertise and leadership of those who are often
    sidelined from mainstream climate discourse - including students
    themselves
  * Decolonizing climate and environmental pedagogy in media and
    communication
  * Practice-based reflections
  * Theoretical reflections
  * The place of emotions such as hope, fear, anxiety, and grief in the
    classroom
  * Collaborations between researchers and practitioners and other
    innovative formats

We welcome contributions that would contribute to any of the planned 
sections below, but please contact us if you wish to address a different 
topic related to the book’s theme.

 1. Teaching mediation of the environment
 2. Teaching climate change journalism
 3. Classroom innovation: building determination and agency
 4. Embedding critique of the media industry’s environmental impact
 5. Environmental justice in the curriculum
 6. Teaching through environmental communication practice
 7. Building institutional competence: Navigating obstacles to climate
    change teaching

If you teach and innovate in this area, please contribute to this book. 
Please send an abstract of no more than 400 words to Rosalind Donald 
((rdonald /at/ american.edu)) and Chris Paterson ((cpaterson /at/ leeds.ac.uk)) by 
December 1 2026. We will notify commissioned authors by January 14, 
2027. First drafts of chapters (provisionally 5,000-6,000 words) will be 
due by March 31, 2027. If your contribution is reliant on the collection 
of new data, please state how far along you are with that process.

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