The Environmental Literature Institute is a five-day program cultivating a community of educators interested in environmentally focused teaching and learning. The conference is designed to expand thinking about environmental education, and is open to middle, secondary and post-secondary educators in all disciplines. Participating classroom teachers — as well as administrators, sustainability coordinators and outdoor educators — leave the institute revitalized and equipped with the resources to develop courses or refine curriculum for existing courses or programs.
ELI was transformative to my work as a teacher. It opened me to so many new ways of seeing and interacting with literature."
The schedule for the week will include a formal introduction to Exeter’s Harkness pedagogy and significant practice time; workshops dedicated to environmental pedagogy; time to collaborate on individual course or curriculum projects, and off-campus field trips to help participants step into the role of students and connect with the local area.
For a glimpse of prior Environmental Literature Institutes, please see Michael Brosnan’s blog piece about ELI 2017; and news stories from The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE): ELI 2022, ELI 2019, ELI 2018, ELI 2017, ELI 2016.
'I learned a ton!'
See what past participants say about ELI.
Award-winning writer Camille Dungy
Contact:
Lauren Rosen, conference manager
lrosen@exeter.edu
603-777-4471
Jason BreMiller, Environmental Literature Institute director
jbremiller@exeter.edu
845-705-4453