Educating for a Climate Changed Future
From First Order Impacts to System Level Transformation
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Beschreibung
This open access book offers a comprehensive, systems-level examination of how schooling and climate change shape one another. Drawing on insights from climate science, comparative education, education policy and implementation research, it distinguishes between first‑order effects—how climate hazards and slow-onset changes disrupt learning—and second‑order effects—how education systems respond through curriculum, teacher preparation, infrastructure, operations and community engagement. It maps five major narratives of climate change education—climate literacy, climate action, green economy skills, education for sustainable development and critical/decolonial approaches—and shows how they coexist and interact in global frameworks and national policies. Moving from policy to practice, it analyzes national case studies of policy reform, case studies of transformation at the school level and examines the role of educator networks and of eco-systems supporting climate change education efforts. Using a complexity science perspective, it explains why many systems remain in “low climate learning traps” and outlines realistic strategies to escape them and achieve systemic policy coherence, offering guidance for researchers, policymakers, practitioners and graduate students working toward climate‑ready education systems.
This open access book offers a comprehensive, systems-level examination of how schooling and climate change shape one another. Drawing on insights from climate science, comparative education, education policy and implementation research, it distinguishes between first‑order effects—how climate hazards and slow-onset changes disrupt learning—and second‑order effects—how education systems respond through curriculum, teacher preparation, infrastructure, operations and community engagement. It maps five major narratives of climate change education—climate literacy, climate action, green economy skills, education for sustainable development and critical/decolonial approaches—and shows how they coexist and interact in global frameworks and national policies. Moving from policy to practice, it analyzes national case studies of policy reform, case studies of transformation at the school level and examines the role of educator networks and of eco-systems supporting climate change education efforts. Using a complexity science perspective, it explains why many systems remain in “low climate learning traps” and outlines realistic strategies to escape them and achieve systemic policy coherence, offering guidance for researchers, policymakers, practitioners and graduate students working toward climate‑ready education systems.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Presents a systems framework linking first‑ and second‑order effects to “low climate learning traps” Integrates global frameworks, national policies and school‑level practice with comparative evidence Blends cross‑national data with cases from 11 systems and 39 schools to highlight practical levers for action
Autor*in
Fernando Reimers
Themen in »Educating for a Climate Changed Future«
Open Access Education and climate change Climate change education policy Climate ready education systems First order and second order climate effects on schooling Climate literacy and education for climate action Green skills and education for the green economy Education for sustainable development and SDG 4.7 Critical and decolonial climate education Comparative climate change education across countries Climate impacts on learning and schooling Teacher professional development for climate change education Whole school approaches to climate and sustainability Governance and policy coherence in climate education UNESCO Greening Education Partnership and GESS