Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action

Toward an Sdg 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47180-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

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The world is on a track to true climate catastrophe, with unprecedented heat, floods, wildfires, and storms setting new records almost weekly. To avoid a climate disaster, we need rapid, transformative, and sustained action as well as a major shift in our thinking—a shift strong enough to make the climate crisis a center of our social, political, economic, personal, and educational life.

Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action is one of the best scorecards in comparative education for keeping track of this drama as it unfolds, shedding light on the global climate crisis like no other education writing today. This book turns to our curricula, our education systems, and our communities for a response on how to effectively achieve Target 4.7 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and Global Citizenship Education (GCED). The message from key stakeholders, including students, educators, and leaders of civil society, is driven home with passion and uncommon clarity: We can and must stave off the worst of climate change by building climate action into the world’s pandemic
recovery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Iyengar, Radhika

Kwauk, Christina T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Affektive, soziale und ethische Ziele in der Erziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating Climate Change into Curriculum

Yao Ydo

Foreword: Climate Action: Transformative Change to Build Forward Better

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: From Roadblocks to a Roadmap: Transformative Education Pathways to Radical Change in the Midst of Climate Breakdown

Christina Kwauk and Radhika Iyengar

PART 1: Toward Education for Climate Action as the Priority

1 A Student Reflects on Her US Environmental Education

Alyssa Dougherty

2 Implementing a School-Wide Ban on Single-Use Plastic Cutlery in a New Jersey Elementary School: A Case Study on the Scope and Limitations of the Role of School Leadership in Incorporating Sustainable Development Practices into a School Agenda

Nidhi Thakur

3 A Whole Institution Approach to Climate Change Education: Preparing School Systems to Be Climate Proactive

Kristen Hargis, Marcia McKenzie, and Isabelle LeVert-Chiasson

4 Radical Transformation of Universities to Prepare the Next Generation of Climate Champions

Irena F. Creed, Meghna Ramaswamy, Matthew Wolsfeld, Stryker Calvez, Murray Fulton, Karsten Liber, Darcy Marciniuk, Jacqueline Ottman, Nancy Turner, Laura Zink, Erin Akins, Kevin Hudson, Jamie Bell, Autumn LaRose-Smith, and Jory McKay

PART 2: Toward a More Radical Vision of Education for Climate Action

5 UNESCO’s Framework “ESD for 2030”: An Ambitious New Initiative for Massive Transformation

Alexander Leicht and Won Jung Byun

6 Climate Change as Quality Education: Global Citizenship Education as a Pathway to Meaningful Change

Ricardo Roemhild and William Gaudelli

7 The Elephant in the Room: Why Transformative Education Must Address the Problem of Endless Exponential Economic Growth

Chirag Dhara and Vandana Singh

8 Learning to Recycle Isn’t Enough: Youth-Led Climate Activism and Climate Change Education in the UK

Richa Sharma

PART 3: Toward (E)quality in Education for Climate Action

9 Toward a Transdisciplinary, Justice-Centered Pedagogy of Climate Change

Vandana Singh

10 A Call for Transformative Learning in Southern Africa: Using Ubuntu Pedagogy to Inspire Sustainability Thinking and Climate Action

Yovita N. Gwekwerere and Overson Shumba

11 Ecology-Based Curriculum Design for Transformative Times: An Integrated, Context-Responsive Approach

Elisa A. Hartwig

12 Eco-Conscious Community Development in Non-Formal Education

Tara Stafford Ocansey and Emmanuel Nuetey Siakwa

PART 4: Toward Greater Accountability in Education for Climate Action

13 Perspectives from a Young Voice on Making Schools and Individuals Agents of Change

Kiana Carlisle

14 The “Ecosystem” of Education, Engagement, and Environmental Action in Higher Education

Isabelle Seckler

15 A Path to a Green Future

Ishaan Bharadwaj

PART 5: Toward Empowering Teachers as Agents of Climate Action

16 ESD in Malaysia: Challenges and Strategies

Pravindharan Balakrishnan

17 Educators’ Perspectives on Environmental Education in India: A Case Study in School and Informal Education Settings

Haein Shin and Srinivas Akula

18 Toward Education for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Asia and the Americas

Estefanía Pihen González

19 Empowerment, Resilience, and Stewardship as Learning Outcomes: Recalibrating Education to Nurture a New Generation of Climate Activists

William Bertolotti

PART 6: Conclusion

20 Roadmap to Transformative Change and the Achievement of SDG 4.7

Radhika Iyengar and Christina Kwauk

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Radhika Iyengar, Ph.D. (2011), Teachers College, Columbia University, is the Education Director at the Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University. She directs many international education programs across sub-Saharan Africa and in South Asia.

Christina Kwauk, Ph.D. (2014), University of Minnesota, is a Fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She authored Roadblocks to Quality Education in a Time of Climate Change, on which this edited volume builds.