DfE Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy – Education estate and digital infrastructure
The National Education Nature Park has the potential to address climate anxiety. “By improving the physical environment in and around education settings, we can impact positively on both the physical and mental wellbeing of children and young people.”
Can climate education help with eco-anxiety?
This article from the British Science Association argues for nature connection as a way to support student well-being.
Developing (Transformative) Environmental and Sustainability Education in Classroom Practice
This editorial argues for the use of transformative learning pedagogies to stimulate deep ‘third-order’ learning.
Facing Anxiety in Climate Change Education: From Therapeutic Practice to HopefulTransgressive Learning
This research based article argues that critical emotional awareness should be included in climate education.
GPE – Towards a pedagogy for climate action
This blog argues for a range of active pedagogies in climate education so that children can become agents for change.
Education for a Just Transition
This report makes the case for cultivating green skills for a just transition to a sustainable economy,stating that “Beyond technical skills, a just transition also requires new ‘transformative’ leadership skillsacross organisations to navigate the transition and manage climate-related risks. These skills includesystems thinking, coalition-building, and the resilience to steer through ambiguity.” p.5 The report alsomakes […]
Political impartiality
The DfE’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy confirms that teachers do not need to teachperspectives on climate change denial in order to be politically impartial. Climate change and sustainability education should be rooted in scientific evidence and debate. Different visions for a range of possible futures should be taught in a politically impartial and balancedway, […]
Transformative pedagogy
The purpose of climate change and sustainability education is to understand better our relationship withnature, how it has changed over time and how we can change it for the future. Recent research from theInstitute of Education has brought forward transformative learning approaches as a way to create spacefor this level of deep learning to happen. […]
Planting the seeds in the Early Years
This article from The Lancet introduces the role of education in creating planetary health and argues that“children should be introduced early on to the linkages between the environment, animals, plants, andhuman health, as well as the behaviours that they can adopt and action that they can take to protect their health and respect nature.” Early […]
Whole school culture, whole curriculum approach
Responding to climate change demands a transformation in every aspect of our lives including lifestyle,education and work. Effective climate education takes a strategic, whole school, whole curriculumapproach and is transformative because it leads to societal change. A collaboration between Leeds Trinity University and the Teacher Development Trust called ‘Sustainability and Climate Change Education: Creating the […]
