- 236 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice shows educators how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective and in a transdisciplinary way, drawing on examples from the author's own classroom.
The book sets out a radical vision for climate pedagogy, introducing an innovative framework in which the scientific essentials of climate change are scaffolded via three transdisciplinary meta-concepts: Balance/Imbalance, Critical Thresholds and Complex Interconnections. Author Vandana Singh grounds this theory in practice, drawing on examples from her own classroom to provide implementable ideas for educators, and to demonstrate how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective in a transdisciplinary way. The book also explores the barriers to effective climate education at a macro level, focusing on issues such as climate misinformation/misconception, the exclusion of social and ethical concerns and a focus on technofixes. Singh uses this information to identify four key dimensions for an effective climate pedagogy, in which issues of justice are central: scientific-technological, the transdisciplinary, the epistemological and the psychosocial. This approach is broad and flexible enough to be adapted to different classrooms and contexts.
Bridging the social and natural sciences, this book will be an essential resource for all climate change educators practicing in both formal and informal settings, as well as for community climate activists.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsements Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: The Climate as Teacher
- 2 What Is an Effective Pedagogy of Climate Change?
- 3 Science, But Not Just Science: Whys and Wherefores of a Transdisciplinary Approach
- 4 Science and More than Science: Three Transdisciplinary Meta-Concepts
- 5 The Power of Stories: Foregrounding Justice in the (Science) Classroom
- 6 On Thin Ice: Applying the Framework to the Cryosphere
- 7 Critical and Ethical Thinking about Climate Solutions
- 8 Insights from Other Educators: Reimagining Formal Spaces
- 9 Insights from Other Educators: Climate Education Outside the Walls
- 10 Reflection-Diffraction: Endings and Beginnings
- Acknowledgments
- Index