Join this lecture to hear UCL IOE Professor Nicola Walshe explore how climate change and sustainability are taught in schools.
Drawing on twenty years of work within environmental and sustainability education—from research undertaken as a newly qualified geography teacher, through to projects overseen as Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education—Nicola will explore approaches to teaching about climate change and environmental sustainability within schools.
She will illustrate children and young people’s conceptualisations of sustainability, highlighting the importance of supporting them beyond simply understanding the science of climate change to developing knowledge and values to help them adapt to a changing and challenging world.
Finally, Nicola will propose, based on her seminal Eco-Capabilities project, that arts-in-nature practice has the potential to provide children and young people with multi-sensory stimuli to connect with nature, understand environmental sustainability, and support mental health and wellbeing. The lecture will be followed by a response from Michael J. Reiss, Professor of Science Education at IOE.
Chair: Professor Li Wei, Director and Dean, IOE.
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