Background and Educational Context

The Green Dialogues. Ecocritical Pathways to Children’s Literature in Education is one of the tangible outcomes of the four-year mobility project Green Dialogues (2022–2025). The project is a collaboration between Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL, Bergen, Norway), the University of Padova (UNIPD, Padova, Italy), and the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain). The students and staff involved in the project are engaged in five-year MA programmes in teacher education with an orientation in language and literature. The main objective of the project is to enhance the quality of teacher education by strengthening student teachers’ and teacher educators’ ecocritical thinking and collaboration competency through dialogue and intercultural exchange. To enhance the quality of education, the project builds on ecocritical thinking and dialogic teaching. It seeks to develop and apply theoretical and ecodidactic perspectives on environmental children’s literature, primarily addressing children aged 6 to 12.