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(1) RATIONALE for the KOTESOL Environmental Justice SIG:
This special interest group is for the purpose of encouraging and supporting English teachers at all schools and levels throughout the Republic of Korea to include information about, and/or in-depth studies on the environment - with a particular focus when possible on the industrial greenhouse effect (AKA AGW/ anthropogenic global warming) and the social justice implications of the industrial lifestyle - within their curricula. This may, for example, include such topics as the history of science, student studies of media reports, covering key vocabulary and concepts such as “mitigation” and “adaptation,” or many other less directly related topics, including simply the development of skills and knowledge useful in an era of increasingly rapid dramatic climatic change, even if not directly related to this overarching set of interacting problems.
(3) Co-FACILITATORS:
Julian Warmington & Rhea Metituk
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(4) How to GET INVOLVED:
Environmental Justice SIG members are invited to join or support the Korea Climate Education Network (inquire @KOTESOLEnviroSIG), a list of guest speakers available to present or host workshops with students and teacher groups alike. Members can contribute in one or more of at least three key valuable ways: by joining the network as a presenter/ speaker, by helping promote the awareness of its availability, or by attending sessions and offering critique and direct feedback in order to help maintain the highest of professional standards.
(5) GUIDELINES:
The KOTESOL Environmental Justice SIG is a resolutely nonpolitical group, focused on the teaching of vocabulary and other lexis for the sake of promoting the understanding of science and technological developments within a rapidly heating, and changing world. This is for the sake of equipping students with skills to further educate themselves in English within STEM and within wider general media, whether social, or traditional and formal, and in developing critical thinking, creativity, and media literacy skills. Expat members of this group are precluded from making comment on existing current governmental policies in the ROK when speaking as a part of the network. The focus is on lexus, particularly, but not exclusively, within the two key contexts of mitigation and adaptation.
