Filling in the Gaps in Climate Education and Climate Justice
Thursday, June 2, 2022
11:30 AM – 11:55 AM MDT
Location: Mile High Ballroom 1A-C
Access to climate and sustainability education in U.S. higher educational institutions is lagging. This session explores the pivotal role that education abroad can play in redressing these gaps by educating students on the disproportionate impact of climate change on the global south; highlighting local solutions-based responses to climate-related changes; and centering indigenous rights, knowledge, and wisdom. Yet learning about climate change is not enough. Educating students on their rights and encouraging political and civic engagement through action-based work in their local communities and contexts is just as critical. When students move beyond climate education toward climate justice, they are empowered to become agents of change, as well as of their own learning, and ultimately, to discover their own unique role in climate action and sustainable development work.
Learning Objectives:
Understand importance of educating students on global impacts of climate change.
Understand relevance of locally-driven, solutions-based approaches to climate change.
Understand and generate models for students to apply learnings to their local contexts through civic engagement and other avenues to transform knowledge into actionable change.
