Climate Change Education: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

Climate change impacts everyone, and education is crucial to addressing its social and environmental effects. This book offers a framework for integrating climate change into educational agendas and provides teaching practices for diverse learning environments. It emphasizes the importance of understanding climate science and its impacts to prepare students for future careers and address systemic barriers and inequalities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 05 December 2023
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Climate change impacts every individual, community, and industry, necessitating education at all levels, across disciplines, and within and outside official institutions. This book offers a framework for prioritizing climate change in educational agendas and provides pedagogical tools for teaching climate science in local and global contexts. Authors Cassie Xu and Radhika Iyengar advocate for evidence-based teaching practices rooted in a broad conception of education, emphasizing a systems approach. They showcase effective approaches in diverse learning environments, including classrooms, informal settings, and communities, highlighting the importance of understanding climate science and its impacts for citizenship and career preparation. The book also addresses systemic barriers and inequalities, reflecting on how to bring marginalized voices and perspectives into educational spaces. By providing a foundation for interdisciplinary environmental education, it underscores the critical role of teaching future generations about climate change in shaping our collective future.

Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231202435