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

Thu, April 27, 4:05 to 6:05pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 206 A

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This symposium brings together leading and emerging researchers in climate change education. In a broader Anthropocene context, the overarching focus of the session centers on disrupting climate change education and its research through the theoretical guises of childhood studies, posthumanism and new materialism. Through drawing upon a number of large-scale climate change education projects, we re(consider) climate change education and the learning knowledge(s) and actions required to alleviate climate change injustice and degradation.

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