TY  - GEN
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TI  - Climate change in higher education: a curriculum topography approach
Y1  - 2021/10//
AV  - public
EP  - 18
CY  - London, UK
A1  - McCowan, Tristan
T3  - Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate: Working Paper Series
N2  - Learning about climate change is widely recognised as an
important outcome for higher education students. However,
there is uncertainty as to the best way to incorporate issues of
climate into the curriculum, whether as a stand-alone module,
through infusion across courses, through interdisciplinary
provision, or informal activities. Furthermore, there is resistance
in some quarters to introduction of this content, on account
of the contested values involved, the overcrowding of the
syllabus, and lack of specialist experience. This paper addresses
the arguments for including climate change in the higher
education curriculum, assessing the different forms of learning
needed by citizens and professionals, the role of the university
as institution, and the different potential forms of integration.
The paper puts forward a proposal for a topography approach,
one that sees the role of the university not as teaching climate
change, but as curating a diverse environment of learning
experiences. The proposed framework sees learning as being
distributed across three spaces (classroom, campus and
community) and characterised by features of access (availability,
voluntariness and continuity), ownership (agency, malleability
and certification) and connection (embeddedness, application,
disciplinarity, transmodality, collaboration and experientiality).
While universities will display diverse topographies depending
on their contextual characteristics, there are important
normative considerations which must be taken into account,
namely: building on students? existing knowledge, criticality,
non-coercion and epistemic pluralism.
ID  - discovery10142639
PB  - Climate-U
UR  - https://www.climate-uni.com/resources
SN  - 2754-0308
ER  -