In the end, Fleischman takes the newly informed citizen activist to the doorstep of making at minimum a personal commitment to change behavior-action mode turn on. There is never a hint that critical analysis is beyond the reader’s ability, but rather affirms that the young reader is quite capable of complex processing.

The author employs a balance of humor and serious reflection. Without lecturing and with a solid foothold in educational theory, the author like a good parent or educator draws the young reader into the process of looking at an issue from new angles with eyes indeed wide open.Ĭhapter one begins a journalist exploration of environmental concerns applying the process of critical analysis in language that is youth friendly. Fleischman leads the young reader to explore human motivations, influences, and barriers in the decision-making process, and matters of societal and cultural bias impacting environmental headlines.

Paul Fleischman’s Eyes Wide Open approaches the topic of environmental engagement from the angle of an old fashioned “investigative reporter.” It takes matters of who, what, when, where to the depths associated with the process of critical thinking.Ī variety of current environmental news topics are introduced in this essay, but the unique manner in which the author presents is not just a factual litany of worries.

Eyes wide open by paul fleischman