The following video features Deakin University’s Associate Professor Peta White and Deakin Distinguished Professor Russell Tytler sharing their insights on Climate Change Education
This international, collaborative project is responding to the question: “How can school science prepare young people for 21st Century futures marked by the major socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene?”.
Our prior research indicates that scientists’ research and development (R&D) can be translated into highly engaging and educational teaching and learning sequences for both primary and secondary school students. We aim to develop students’ and also teachers’ knowledge, skills, values, and agency through representing contemporary socio-scientific understandings and data-driven epistemic practices in climate science linked contexts.
Contemporary processes of representing and translating science R&D into student learning via curriculum-informed education design are being collaboratively researched across three countries – Australia, Finland, and Taiwan. Strategies are being developed for teachers and students to engage directly with scientists’ climate-related R&D, and science practices aimed at addressing socio-ecological challenges to lead to more robust science learning that acknowledges the complex connections between Earth and human systems. We are developing a globally informed climate change education framework to enhance contemporary science classroom practice. With support from our international Advisory Panel, we are co-designing teaching and learning sequences with teachers across the three countries with a strong focus on student agency, and teacher professional learning.
Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Tang, W., et al. (2021) including data from the European Space Agency, and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Himawari imagery courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency.