Climate Change Curriculum
Curriculum resources for faculty in different disciplines
Pedagogy
This tab includes selected academic articles and compilations of teaching tips for climate educators. See also the guide Teaching Climate Change in the Community College, which includes a robust set of resources focused on the cognitive, political and emotional challenges of this issue.
For a broad overview of effective climate change education, see "We need to support climate change education because it works!" from the Paleontological Research Institution.
Articles about the pedagogy of teaching climate change
Teaching in the Anthropocene : education in the face of environmental crisis by Publication Date: 2022Teaching in the Anthropocene discusses (1) challenges to teacher education practice and praxis, (2) the affective dimensions of teaching, (3) relational pedagogies, and (4) ways to igniting imaginations.
- Affective Pedagogies: Foregrounding Emotion in Climate Change EducationAcademic article by Audrey Bryan, published in Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2020. Provides "a conceptual toolkit to inform the psycho-affective aspects of CCE, with a particular emphasis on the pedagogical complexities of engaging learners located in emissions-intensive societies with their role as ‘implicated subjects’ in the climate crisis."
- Climate change’s challenge for educationArticle by Tom Haymes in eCampus News, 2019. "Climate change presents education with an opportunity to focus on problem solving and critical thinking"
- Eco-Anxiety and Environmental EducationAcademic article by Panu Pihkala published in journal Sustainability in 2020. Reviews the literature related to eco-anxiety, and proposes strategies for educators to address their own difficult emotions and to develop emotional skills for their teaching.
- Identifying effective climate change education strategies: a systematic review of the researchLiterature review published in Environmental Education Research, 2017.
- Teach Climate TipsNewsletter article from Climate Generation, Nov. 2020
- Teaching About Climate ChangeFrom Radical Teacher - A Socialists, Feminist, and Anti-Racists Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching. 2015
- Teaching Climate Change: Best PracticesFrom the National Center for Science Education
- Worry and Hope: What College Students Know, Think, Feel, and Do about Climate ChangeAcademic article reviewing the research about climate literacy of U.S.college students, and presenting results of a study at the University of Hawaii system, by Krista Hiser and Matthew Lynch, 2021. Conclusion: "More collaborative, student-oriented, and multidisciplinary curriculum and pedagogies for climate change must be rapidly diffused throughout the higher education sector in order to influence behavior (for mitigation efforts and problem-solving) and create societal foundations for long-term adaptation, both practical and psychological."