"It's My Responsibility": Perspectives on Environmental Justice and Education for Sustainability Among International School Students in Singapore

• In Event: Global Perspectives on Environmental Justice: The Role of Identities and Experiences

Abstract

This research analyzes students’ perspectives on sustainable development, environmental justice, and concomitant environmental education programs at two international schools in Singapore. Data include surveys of over 250 students and 19 focus group interviews with 300 students. In addition to having a detailed and nuanced understanding of the complexity of climate change and its impacts, students acknowledged both the potential consequences of continuing resource-intensive industrialization and the growing disparity in carbon emissions between developed and developing countries.

Authors

• Jeremy D. Jimenez, SUNY - College at Cortland

• Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State University