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Teacher Education for Transdisciplinary Climate Change Education
Wed, April 23, 9:00 to 10:30am MDT (9:00 to 10:30am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2FSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
Global climate change is a pressing reality rapidly reshaping ecosystems and societies. Yet, education can serve to rapidly spread the mechanisms for social change necessary for decarbonization. To meet this challenge, climate change education must be woven into every subject at every grade in every school. The effort requires teacher education to embrace its responsibility to prepare teachers to take on the challenges of climate change education. Fortunately, teacher educators are developing cutting-edge approaches to preparing teachers to teach about climate change and climate justice. In this symposium, presenters will share their research-based climate change education insights and innovations and discuss how teacher education can become a transformative space for motivating a global response to the climate emergency.
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Embedding & Enacting Climate Change Education in Teacher Education - Maria Vamvalis, University of Toronto - OISE; Ellen Field, Lakehead University; Carrie Karsgaard, Cape Breton University
Climate Change Education in the Caribbean: Progress, Gaps, Imperatives, and the Implications for Teacher Education - Therese Ferguson, University of the West Indies - Mona Campus
Supporting Pre-service Teacher Learning about Sociopolitical and Scientific Dynamics of Climate Change through Local Phenomena - Lynne Zummo, University of Utah
Teacher Education for Local Solutions Through Global Education - Danielle B. Harlow, University of California - Santa Barbara; Julie Bianchini, University of California - Santa Barbara; Devon Azzam, University of California - Santa Barbara; Karin Lohwasser, University of California - Santa Barbara
Supporting Elementary Educators’ Climate Change Learning through a Teacher Book Club - Rebecca Woodard, University of Illinois at Chicago; Kristine M. Schutz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ethics of Care and Pedagogies of Hope for Climate Change Education in Teacher Education - Kristin L. Gunckel, University of Arizona