Who Is Responsible for Climate Change? Ecological Citizenship and Elementary Social Studies Literature

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Abstract

This paper investigates how recently- published elementary social studies literature addresses climate change within a context of civic responsibility. Specifically, it examines storylines to determine how responsibility for climate change is framed, thus setting forth a sort of ‘ecological citizenship’ theoretical perspective.

Author

• Jay Shuttleworth, Long Island University, Brooklyn