‘Eco-champion’ teachers face barriers in implementing climate change education. Communities and school boards can find inspiration to support them from boards with bolder climate commitments.
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A comic aimed at high school students looks at the ways people have adapted to climate change in five countries.
More of the curriculum is devoted to climate change, but it’s still not presented holistically. Teachers also need more training and resources to help them prepare students for a changing climate.
Researchers and educators with the Climate Action Childhood network are generating responses to climate change alongside young children.
Children often aren’t aware of how much has been lost in recent generations.
Some children and youth find the effects of climate change are traumatic. Taking a trauma-informed approach to education can nurture resilience.
Peatlands have been central to how northern European folklore has explored fear and a sense of the supernatural for hundreds of years. Their persistence is also key to slowing down climate change.
University experts are well placed to equip students with holistic climate knowledge and help teachers cover a subject that’s neglected by the Australian Curriculum.
Picture this change: Through collaborative garden networks, teachers, schools, children, community partners and universities inspire real learning and transformation for a more sustainable world.
After Hurricane Sandy, educators in New York City partnered with environmental and governmental organizations to put youth at the centre of preparing for risks and hazards in their school buildings.
Earth-centred children’s programs that seek to build ethical partnerships with Indigenous communities have an important role in learning about weathering climate change.
A filmmaker, her students and community partners create a multi-platform documentary and study guide to teach swamp literacy and care through a trip into the Everglades.
We’re running out of time – so we can’t leave it all to Greta Thunburg and David Attenborough.
In these divided times, young people are uniting to claim a political platform and fight climate change.
Climate change is such a big problem it’s almost impossible for us to really understand. We need artists to mobilise on a huge scale to render the problem comprehensible.
There are three things the new head of the IPCC can do now to help people understand climate science.
Across the globe, we are experiencing rapid changes to our environment and social structures. Climate change, population growth, and social unrest are causing ever increasing problems. The rate of change…
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Research Fellow, Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania, and Lecturer in Communication – Journalism, Deakin University
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Research affiliate at climate change & (in)security project, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Research Associate, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford
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Professor, ARC Future Fellow & Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Natural Environment, University of Exeter
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Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Executive Dean and Professor of Sustainability, Environment & Education, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Ecology, University of Reading
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Professor in Communication Studies, Concordia University
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Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania
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Canada Research Chair of Creativity and STEM and Associate Professor, University of Calgary
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Candidate, Doctor of Social Sciences; Professor ECE, Royal Roads University
