Activating Children and Young People's Political Agency in Climate Change

• In Event: 18.048 - Education for What? Shaping the Field of Climate Change Education With Children and Young People as Co-Researchers

Abstract

Children are often positioned as the next generation of leaders in whom the public trusts or expects to overcome the legacies of environmental and climate inaction. Increasingly analyses of progress in environmental education independently identify the need for researchers and teachers to ‘listen to children’s voices’. In the opening presentation of this symposium we argue that climate change education presents a significant platform not only for youth voices, but also for a genuine activation of children and young people’s political agency in schools, universities, and the public domain.

Authors

• Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, University of Bath

• Robert Barratt, University of Gloucestershire

• Karen Malone, University of Western Sydney