A sign at a climate protest by school children and young people in Dublin, September 2021 Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie A sign at a climate protest by school children and young people in Dublin, September 2021 Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie CLIMATE EDUCATION MUST be revised to teach students about the climate crisis and empower them to take action instead of the current ‘inadequate’ system, experts say.
Additionally, students should be shown how to take action, like developing a project or writing to a politician, to empower them. “A lot of the time it can fall on individualist things, like you should have a shower instead of a bath, or you should be turning off your lights, or you shouldn’t shop fast fashion, which is all very true, but at the end of the day, when we’re talking about climate education, it’s such a rich opportunity to be able to teach people about systemic issues,” she told The Journal.
He said the state of climate and nature education in schools is “dismal” and “completely and utterly inadequate for where we’re at right now”. “Possibly, there’s a need there for a separate environmental qualification as well with staff who are trained and have the passion and interest and qualifications to deliver that,” he said.
“They might do that themselves in their own classroom and integrate it into their subjects or they might do it by linking in with an organisation like ourselves,” Nevin said. A spokesperson for the Department of Education told The Journal that the strategy will be based around five key areas, including “empowering and mobilising youth – not only giving our young people the knowledge, but empowering them to take action”.
The NCCA then commissioned an international curriculum audit of Education for Sustainable Development last year to guide curriculum development in Ireland, which is also due to be published in the next two months. ISSN founder Patrick Kirwan said that basic information about the climate crisis is not being communicated to the public.
Student Jessica Dunne also believes that climate education needs to be strengthened in schools and in society more broadly. They also said that they don’t feel they have enough knowledge or skills, they don’t feel that they have access to politicians, and they don’t feel that they’re heard or listened to.
“[In the climate justice course] we’re also looking at the social justice issues around climate action. When we talk about climate action, it’s who are the people it impacts and how can we make a transition from a high carbon society to a low carbon society as fair and as equitable as possible, and that’s something that we also cover with young people that we work with.”
Must be a delay in the teachers electric bills this month!
Just a reminder to folks that climate change is not something that's happening in the future. It's been happening gradually over the last few decades and is only going to speed up now with natural feedback loops like permafrost being triggered. We as a species are in the endgame
The Journal headline implies there is a consensus for this. When you read the article, it becomes obvious it is just a few individuals.
Are the teachers not unnecessarily scaring the children enough as it is?
Brainwashing young children into the cult of climate crisis. It's all a fucking lie to further enslave the human race and empower the self appointed elite parasites.
Hopefully the new approach will include an honest appraisal of nuclear energy as a possible solution to climate change.
Bullshit
'Educated'
What about teaching young people to stop using energy 24/7,changing phone,laptop, tablet every 6 month been driven everywhere and so on?
Planet on fire 🔥
'Teachers and students want climate education to be revised' makes it sound like a consensus, but after reading the article, that is not the case at all. It is just a few individuals opinions.
Climate crisis- have you seen the amount of snow in Greece this week and in North Eastern US ?
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