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The climate crisis is the latest episode of the A Different Lens documentary series and it exemplifies two big tasks for climate literacy.
The first is to make sure that Culturally relevantClimate change education is a way to help all people understand this problem.
The second is that any talk of climate changes education must be carefully designed and supported with concrete support. resonatesIt is Ensure that you follow all instructions broad-basedIt is also the highest QualitativeTo do justice to the extent of existential danger the episode illustrates.
Acknowledging we need to learn and change direction is at the heart of the climate crisis.
In order to bring the two together, inspiration, collaboration and infrastructure are crucial. TogetherOnly then can it show that we have I seized the moment to learn our way out of this crisis—whether that is through schools, colleges, universities, community settings, workplaces, unions, the media, and so on.
A Tried and tested approachAustralia can adopt the network of climate change offices. These offices can be located within government departments and coordinate programs of leadership, education, and action. Such OfficesIt is important to ensure that Quality and rigor in climate educationYou can also foster new ideas, partnerships, and mechanisms that stimulate work in schools and communities.
This approach has its challenges. Political squabbles between parties. Another is to balance how we develop and align. Initiatives in policy at local, state and federal levels—and crucially—differentiate it.
Education on climate change faces both the challenges and opportunities.
Preservice teacher education and professional learning can help meet these needs. Unanimous public support and overwhelming scientific consensusClimate emergency: Act now!
This has its consequences. It is important to keep the broad contours of the law intact in order to maintain the energy and urgency for change. Current education policy and practice. Their hearts are the most important. CriticsShow these have just supported cultural or economic arrangements that are not sustainable politically. climate emergencyIt will help to fuel it instead of reducing or reversing it.
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To move forward, a simple recognition is necessary: ChampionsInnovation about climate change and education reform are still in the forefront of our minds. Local groupsStudents and teachers who are passionate and committed. These groups are often energized and sustained by participation in loose coalitions, as symbolized by Greta Thunberg (and other youth-led leadership, actions.
If we can find representatives of a wider range local faces across generations, settings, cultures, and locations, we will know we have made significant progress on climate education within Australia. Stand togetherThis is your challenge.
Equally, we should expect this range to honestly represent those impacted by the climate crisis as well as those that are bringing about change through deep—rather than tokenistic or opportunistic—engagementWith the education sector.
In other words, this cannot be reduced to matters of social marketing, nudging or influencing, nor icons from overseas or be championed by generations who won’t live through the worst of what’s predicted. What’s at stake? ensuring Australia provides quality education for these times and into the future, as outlined in the United Nation’s 4th Sustainable Development Goal and UNESCO’s Futures of Education report.
So where are we now?
It’s sad that we haven’t seen our education ministers at the forefront of climate literacy.
ItalyAustralia was not represented at the Glasgow COP meeting.
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Our education ministers are also not available. Working shoulder-to-shoulderThese include those from environment and health, defence, and economic portfolios.
Joe Biden championed this kind of joined up thinking at his Leaders’ Summit on Climate in April 2021. Scott Morrison’s track record is salutatory – he avoided demonstrating it then and hasn’t done so since, be that at Glasgow or beyond.
This is important as acknowledging We must learn and change our direction.This is the core of the climate crisis.
Science, culture, and artsLet all generations know that there are things they need to learn, unlearn, and relearn. Conditions for living togetheron the planet in just and equitable ways that are sustainable. In other words, there are many candidates for Living a carbon-intensive lifeThis should be a fact that we have forgotten.
In other words, educators and governments shouldn’t be afraid to Ask tough questionsLearn more about the threats to your lifestyle, livelihood, and ways of life. Cause or exacerbationThe Climate threat.
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As COP26 at Glasgow Shown, joining the dots across ministerial portfolios is crucial to realising any chance of systemic change — especially in relation to law and policy reform, and demonstrating the integrity and transparency of governments and governance. It is also a strong sign of commitment. Organisational Learning too — and not continuing with passing the buck.
Now, find! prime ministers at the crux of climate debate and action isn’t unknown in Australia. In recent times, however, it was not always clear if they spoke up because they had themselves, their children, grandchildren, or some other purpose.
As a case in point, what does practicing rather than preaching ‘creation care’ involve?
If we consider the ‘green awakening’ of Pope Francis, he seems to be the first leader of the Catholic Church to be on board with anything like the Paris Agreement. His name is also a charming reminder of a patron saint for ecology and community mindedness who put words to action. Pope Francis, just like the Saint before, is trying now to lead an imperfect institution in reorienting. Resolve ecological issues and concerns about life on the planet.
Perhaps, rather than listening to leaders say the equivalent of praying for it in prayer, Australia could demand something similar from its leaders in education and government on climate change. One option is to make a clear statement, or manifesto equivalent. Laudato Si’ in Australia that spells out why we need to shift and transform the focus and depth of our ‘Social teaching’ as well as our education.
Why? Because we can all agree on that Climate stability is a fundamental human rightIt doesn’t matter who, when, or from whom we learn this.
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So far, we aren’t seeing clear leadershipInformation from federal and state governments about climate change education and how it is taught in schools.
This applies to the development of Australian Curriculum v9.0. Given the times, this could have been strengthened SustainabilityAs a priority in your studies. It makes it easier to Incorporate climate changeAs a topic in all areas Learning areasIn ways that guarantee a Sound educational progressIn the knowledge, skills, and world views that students are taught. It would also demonstrate that education ministers and leaders are actively engaged in the COP process. Different sectors and portfolios.
The national, state- and community-level responses Pandemic COVID-19These are examples of instructive comparisons. These examples show how fragmented, weak and ineffective policy-makers have been in responding the climate crisis that is currently raging.
As Tony Capon emphases, the climate crisis is a bigger, more complicated and longer term threat to all people’s health and their communities than the coronavirus.
One, if governments are ready to make radical changes in schooling and the lives students and teachers in order to address the pandemic to keep, Their right to learnIt is now possible to imagine how we might find the right balance between costs and benefits in order to address the climate crisis. It is imperative that we act quickly if we want to preserve climate stability as a fundamental human right, as shown by the ADL episode.
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In terms of urgency, I’m also reminded of the saying: ‘there’s no jobs on a dead planet’. It’s a double-edged sword. Employers who don’t listen to their markets are soon out of business. Equally, employers don’t offer jobs to Graduating seniors of the education system who aren’t capable of working with the challenges of today’s world.
So if there’s a task for economists, cultural historians, geologists, and zoologists to work on together now, it is to learn from ‘extinction studies’ in ways that help us all avoid Repetition of the same mistakes those spell out for business models, species and civilisations – i.e. forms and ways of life – that are no longer sustainable – be that for first nations through to the latest individual and corporate citizens of Australia.
Anna Skarbek makes this point directly: now is the time to grasp the nettle of turning around existential as well as economic priorities for jobs and careers so they are all climate-literate and climate-change-ready. Upstream means that technical, vocational, and academic education and training are all available. relevant climate literacyEach educational offering should have this as a core part of its DNA.
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Climate literacy is therefore more than being functionally knowledgeable about the climate crisis. It can be demonstrated by showing that We can all read and understand the signs of the times and have the competences, capacity and resources—and opportunities—to respond accordingly.
Culturally relevant climate change education is essential, and it must be accessible to all.
Thus as part of a ‘Just transition’ process it is also crucial that climate literacy ensures No one is left behind, Starts at the people who are there.
The two biggest tasks are, in other words, culturally relevant and quality education for all.
