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Climate Country: Dismantling and Co-Constructing Climate Change Education on/With Country

Fri, April 12, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 13

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The overwhelming whiteness of apocalyptic climate change narratives arguably perpetuates colonial violence, often placing Indigenous peoples in historical categorisations where colonisers become the ‘saviours’ through the imposition of techno-scientific logics of adaptation and assimilation. While international commitment remains high for the development of climate change education, nations are falling well short in developing climate change education policy and curriculum. Such efforts have failed to work with Indigenous knowledges and Western minority science in generating new and co-constructed ways to approach teaching and learning climate change with Country in the early and school years. This symposium is a call to action through its pursuit for new and co-constructed conceptualisations of climate change education on/with Country.

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