Climate Teacher Education as Spaces for Holding Climate Precarity, Hope, Community, and Youths’ Flourishing Futures (Poster 2)

• In Event: Climate Teacher Education as Spaces for Holding Climate Precarity, Hope, Community, and Youths’ Flourishing Futures

Abstract

Climate justice education, at best, remains at the periphery of teacher education (EdWeek Research Center, 2022; Beach, 2023); this session is designed to disrupt this reality. The presentations vary across institutions, content areas, informal and formal education, methodological approaches, and learning timelines. Central to this shared work is a disruption of Whiteness and an embrace of community and youth partnerships that creatively honor expertise from communities of Color, while seeding socio-ecological care and ecological hope. Although still in nascent stages, collectively the authors weave a robust, and expansive, image for climate responsible teacher education. This work breathes life into what climate justice education should entail and opens space for justice-oriented world building.

Author

• Kelsie Fowler, University of Washington