Harriet Thew
Mainstreaming Climate Change Education in UK Higher Education Institutions
Thew, Harriet; Graves, Catherine; Reay, Dave; Smith, Shona; Petersen, Katrine; Bomberg, Elizabeth; Boxley, Simon; Causley, Jake; Congreve, Alina; Cross, Iain; Dunk, Rachel; Dunlop, Lynda; Facer, Keri; Gamage, Kelum; Greenhalgh, Christine; Greig, Alison; Kiamba, Lorna; Kinakh, Vitalia; Kioupi, Vasiliki; Klapper, Rita; Kurul, Esra; Lee, Michael; Marshall-Cook, Joanna; McGivern, Alexis; Mörk, Jane; Nijman, Vincent; O’Brien, Jennifer; Preist, Chris; Price, Elizabeth; Samangooei, Mina; Schrodt, Franziska; Sharmina, Maria; Toney, Jaime; Walsh, Conow; Walsh, Tristram; Wood, Ruth; Wood, Peter; Worsfold, Nicholas
Authors
Catherine Graves
Dave Reay
Shona Smith
Katrine Petersen
Elizabeth Bomberg
Simon Boxley
Jake Causley
Alina Congreve
Iain Cross
Rachel Dunk
Lynda Dunlop
Keri Facer
Kelum Gamage
Christine Greenhalgh
Alison Greig
Dr LORNA KIAMBA L.KIAMBA@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Assistant Professor - Environmental Design and Architecture
Vitalia Kinakh
Vasiliki Kioupi
Rita Klapper
Esra Kurul
Michael Lee
Joanna Marshall-Cook
Alexis McGivern
Jane Mörk
Vincent Nijman
Jennifer O’Brien
Chris Preist
Elizabeth Price
Mina Samangooei
Dr FRANZISKA SCHRODT FRANZISKA.SCHRODT1@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Earth System Science
Maria Sharmina
Jaime Toney
Conow Walsh
Tristram Walsh
Ruth Wood
Peter Wood
Nicholas Worsfold
Abstract
Key messages
• Mainstreaming Climate Change Education (CCE) across all learning and operational activities enables Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to better serve their core purpose of preparing learners for their roles in work and wider society, now and in the future.
• Student and employer demand for climate change education is growing, not just in specialist subjects but across all degree pathways.
• The attitudes, mindsets, values and behaviours that graduates need to engage with climate change include the ability to deal with complexity, work collaboratively across sectors and disciplines and address challenging ethical questions.
• The complexity of the climate crisis means all disciplines have a role to play in delivering education for the net-zero transition. Embedding interdisciplinarity is crucial to ensuring that our response to climate change makes use of all of the expertise HEIs have to offer and promotes knowledge exchange and integration for students and staff.
• Student-centered CCE, including peer-to-peer learning, is a powerful tool for facilitating an inclusive and empowering learning experience, and developing graduates as change agents for the climate and ecological crisis.
• HEIs should develop learning outcomes for CCE that include understanding the scale, urgency, causes, consequences and solutions of climate change; how social norms and practices are driving the climate crisis; and the ability to identify routes to direct involvement in solutions via every discipline.
• Pedagogical approaches to teaching CCE should enable learners to engage with, and respond to, climate change as a “real-world” problem, such as through experiential learning.
• Further recommendations for the HEI sector include developing a strategy for aligning CCE teaching provision with governance structures; partnering with industry, government and third sector organisations to enable context-specific CCE; and working with trade unions and accreditation bodies to enable curriculum reform.
Citation
Thew, H., Graves, C., Reay, D., Smith, S., Petersen, K., Bomberg, E., …Worsfold, N. Mainstreaming Climate Change Education in UK Higher Education Institutions
Working Paper Type | Working Paper |
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Deposit Date | Nov 26, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 15, 2022 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/13179745 |
Publisher URL | https://uucn.ac.uk/uucn_briefings/mainstreaming-climate-change-education-in-uk-higher-education-institutions/ |
Additional Information | COP26 Universities Network |
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