Designing Educative Climate Literacy Curriculum Materials for Teacher Educators (Poster 4)

• In Event: Mapping the Terrain of Climate Change Education: Literacy, Curricula, Practices, and Policy

Abstract

There is a worldwide call for changes in education to address ongoing climate and environmental issues. However, little attention is paid to teacher educators - those who teach the teachers - in supporting environmental and climate change education efforts. As a collective of community members, educators, and researchers, we designed educative curriculum materials to support teacher educators in integrating climate literacy in pre-service teacher education courses. Using design-based research, we explain our design heuristics and the educative features of a model instructional unit created to support teacher educator learning. The purpose of this paper is to make visible the design work needed to integrate climate literacy in teacher education.

Authors

• Heather F. Clark, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Christine Lee, University of California - Los Angeles

• Fawn E. Canady, Southern Oregon University

• Lauren Fletcher, California State University - Stanislaus

• Stephanie L. Sisk-Hilton, San Francisco State University

• Megan J. Sulsberger, California State University - Monterey Bay