Transforming Schools and Communities to Address the Climate Crisis
Transforming Schools and Communities to Address the Climate Crisis
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Description
Recent studies reveal a growing global concern among young people about climate change and its impact on their lives. Half of children worldwide report that climate-related anxiety affects their daily experiences, while 70% of youth question the quality of the climate education they receive. Despite widespread recognition of the issue, an analysis of curricula across 100 countries found that 47% made no reference to climate change-particularly in high-emission nations-while countries most affected by climate impacts were more likely to include it. Although 95% of teachers believe climate change education is essential, only 40% feel confident teaching it, just 55% have received relevant training, and fewer than half report that their schools have an action plan in place.
This edited volume responds to these challenges by bringing together chapters written by teachers from multiple disciplines who share practical, classroom-based examples of how they and their students engage with the realities of climate change. Through lessons focused on the local impacts of extreme weather, sea-level rise, drought, heat, and wildfires-and their effects on lives, housing, food production, and health-these educators demonstrate how schools can empower students to understand, address, and act on the defining environmental issue of their time.
Table of Contents
Section 1 Cultivate and Lay the Groundwork
Section 1 Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Archipelagic learning: Crafting regenerative climate literacies through the Local Alternatives platform
Chapter 3: Inside-Out Education: A Transformative Framework Adaptable Across Ages and Contexts
Chapter 4: Ecomedia Literacy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education
Section 2 Fertilize and Fortify Collaboration
Section 2 Introduction
Chapter 5: Creating Climate Education from the Ground Up
Chapter 6: Using Networks of Support to Foster Knowledge-in-Action through Community Energy Engineering
Chapter 7: Creating community through climate storytelling in a fractured political moment
Chapter 8: Co-composing-with Vulnerability in the Polycrisis: A Rapping/Walking/Art-making Assemblage of Feminist Material Pedagogies
Chapter 9: The Power of Persuasive Images: Transforming Schools by Promoting Recycling
Chapter 10: Young Leaders in Action: Improving community resilience through intergenerational leadership
Keywords: climate safety; futures thinking; consequential justice; multispecies justice; advocacy
Section 3 Plant Seeds and Nurture Roots of Practice
Section 3 Introduction
Chapter 11: The Importance of the C's: Character, Content, Citizenship, and Climate Change
Chapter 12: Rooted in Community: Engaging BIPOC Youth in Community-Centered Environmental Science
Chapter 13: Classroom-Driven Participatory Climate Science in Courses, on Campuses, and with Communities
Chapter 14: Fostering Emotional Engagement with the Environment Through a Close Reading of Place
Chapter 15: What's up with the weather? Exploring openings for climate conversations in a tertiary outdoor education program
Chapter 16: Preparing to work with children, families and communities in unstable futures: Working with undergraduate Early Years and Childhood Studies students
Section 4 Harvest and Take Action to Share Bounty
Section 4 Introduction
Chapter 17: Community Amidst Crisis: Forming Socioecological Stories-to-live-by as Teachers in Florida
Chapter 18: Restorying the Landscape: Connecting with Local Ecologies through Outdoor Arts-based Learning at School
Chapter 19: Engaging Students in Collective Actions To Address the Climate Crisis
Chapter 20: Collaboration in Environmental Education Across Age, Place, and Time
Chapter 21: The Best Life Project: Embracing Climate Activism through a Holistic Approach to Inquiry and Action
Chapter 22: From Knowledge to Informed Action: Action-Oriented Pedagogies in Climate and Safety Science Education
Chapter 23: (Climate) Change-making in the Classroom: Enhancing student learning through peer education opportunities
Section 5 Sustain and Spread New Seeds of Growth
Section 5 Introduction
Chapter 24: “Stepping into Story: Embodied Learning, Climate Crisis, and Parable of the Sower”
Chapter 25: Agency to Advocacy: Supporting Student Voices in Local Climate Action
Chapter 26: Youth Climate Activists Transforming Schools and Communities
Chapter 27: Tourism's Role in Climate Change: Sustaining Cultural Connections by Designing Virtual Field Experiences
Chapter 28: A Closing Invitation
About the Authors
Product details
| Published | Dec 10 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 9798765188828 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 50 B/W figures |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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