El. knyga: Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice [Taylor & Francis e-book]

"Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice lays out a radical philosophy of climate education, informed by insights, ideas and examples from the author's own experiences in the classroom and beyond. Addressing the failure of mainstream educationto rise to the challenge of the climate crisis, author Vandana Singh, professor of physics and environment, reorients the climate education discussion by considering the climate problem itself as teacher. The book presents an innovative framework in which the scientific essentials of climate change are scaffolded via three transdisciplinary meta-concepts: Balance/Imbalance, Critical Thresholds/Planetary Boundaries, and Complex Interconnections. These embrace the key features of the climate crisis: large scales of space and time, inherent transdisciplinarity, complex relationships within and between human-natural systems, and the centrality of justice and power. Proposing four dimensions of an effective, justice-centered climate pedagogy: the scientific-technological, the transdisciplinary, the epistemological and the psychosocial, the author presents classroom best practices that educators from any discipline can adapt to teach climate change in a transdisciplinary way. The role of stories, particularly those from marginalized communities, is central to this framework. Bridging the social and natural sciences, this book is an essential resource for all climate change educators practicing in both formal and informal settings, as well as for community climate activists"--

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.

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.