Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times

ISBN-13: 9780415649155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 276 str.

Kagawa, Fumiyo

Opis

There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion. What part does education have to play in helping alleviate rampant climate change and in mitigating its worst effects? In this volume, contributors review and reflect upon social learning from and within their fields of educational expertise in response to the concerns over climate change. They address the contributions the field is currently making to help preempt and mitigate the environmental and social impacts of climate change, as well as how it will continue to respond to the ever changing climate situation. With a special foreword by Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town.

Spis treści

Foreword: The Fatal Complacency  Desmond Tutu.  Introduction  Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby  1. Climate Change Education and Communication: A Critical Perspective on Obstacles and Resistances  Edgar González-Gaudiano and Pablo Meira-Cartea  2. ‘Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird’: Sustainability-related Education in Interesting Times  David Selby  3. Peace Learning: Universalism in Interesting Times  Magnus Haavelsrud  4. Climate Injustice: How Should Education Respond?  Heila Lotz-Sisitka  5. The Environment, Climate Change, Ecological Sustainability and Anti-Racist Education  George J. Sefa Dei  6. Learning in Emergencies: Defense of Humanity for a Livable World  Fumiyo Kagawa  7. Sustainable Democracy: Issues, Challenges and Proposals for Citizenship Education in an Age of Climate Change  Ian Davies and James Pitt  8. School Improvement in Transition: An Emerging Agenda for Interesting Times  Jane Reed  9. Critique, Create and Act: Environmental Adult and Social Movement Learning in an Era of Climate Change  Darlene E. Clover and Budd L. Hall  10. Transforming the Ecological Crisis: Challenges for Faiths and Interfaith Education in Interesting Times  Toh Swee-Hin (S.H.Toh) and Virginia Cawagas  11. Public Health Threats in a Changing Climate: Meeting the Challenges through Sustainable Health Education  Janet Richardson and Margaret Wade  12. Weaving Change: Improvising Global Wisdom in Interesting and Dangerous Times  Wendy Agnew.  Climate Change Education: A Critical Agenda for Interesting Times  Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby

O autorze

David Selby is an Adjunct Professor at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also Founding Director of Sustainability Frontiers, an international not-for-profit organization addressing climate change education, sustainability education and eco-pedagogy.

Fumiyo Kagawa is currently Research Director of Sustainability Frontiers. Her doctoral studies examined the interface between emergency education and education for sustainability.