Ben Zvi Assaraf, Orit;
Dawson, Vaille;
Eilam, Efrat;
Gokpinar, Tuba;
Goldman, Daphne;
Naugauker, Nofar;
Eka Putri, Gusti Agung Paramitha;
... Dillon, Justin; + view all
(2025)
Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries.
International Journal of Science Education
, 47
(2)
pp. 191-213.
10.1080/09500693.2024.2314572.
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Abstract
Climate change (CC) is the most significant global issue facing humanity, yet research addressing the perspectives of the key players influential in developing and implementing school-based CC curricula at a cross-country national level is scarce. This study examined the perceptions of policymakers, teacher professional development providers and CCE teachers in relation to: CC knowledge, representation in the curriculum, content and pedagogy, and support for teaching. The voices of these educators were gathered across five countries (Australia, England, Finland, Indonesia, and Israel) through semi-structured interviews. Analysis revealed much commonality across the countries and across role types. Although participants agreed that CCE is multidisciplinary and expressed widespread support for including CC in the curriculum through a cross-curriculum approach, their conceptualisations of CC knowledge were inconsistent. Participants recognised the importance of a science basis in CCE, and of student action, with some participants also emphasising emotional, ethical and value-based inclusions. Most suggested active learning focused pedagogies. Variations in approaches to CC implementation between countries suggest that CCE is in a transitional phase. In all five countries, the interviewees called for the curriculum to make more explicit connections to CC and for governmental leadership in supporting CCE, professional development and provision of resources.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09500693.2024.2314572 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2314572 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in anymedium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on whichthis article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, Climate Change Education (CCE), curriculum perspectives, MODEL |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205485 |
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