Climate Change Education Resources
If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people -- Kuan Tzu (7th Century BC)
As educators we face a pivotal period in human history. Due to the relatively recent emergence of climate change as both an academic field and as a threat to species survival, we are essentially creating the map as we go. As we embark on this great challenge, we offer this website to share resources and three perspectives on incorporating climate change education into curriculum.
About Us: We are three students working from diverse perspectives towards a PhD in Sustainability Education. This Spring 2015, we have been engaged in a course on Climate Change Education and though it, have developed this website. Read more about our backgrounds below and visit each of our individual pages for resources specific to our foci, as well as our educational frameworks. We hope you find something useful, inspiring, and transformative here. |
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Emily earned a MA in Peace Education in 2009 at The United Nations University for Peace and spent the next four years teaching international social justice issues and activism to teens. Through her international travel, service work, activism, and time spent as a teacher and student; Emily has found her calling in education at the intersection of ecology, economics, and social justice. Her current research through the PhD in Sustainability Education from Prescott College is focused on the question: How can we truly empower our youth to face the crises and opportunities of this unique crossroads in history with resilience, compassion, creativity, and joy? Follow this link to her resources and this link to see related annotations.
Emily's independent doctoral coursework includes: EcoJustice Education, Participatory Leadership Methodologies, Transformative Learning, Rites of Passage in Contemporary Learning Communities, EcoPedagogy, Education for Sustainability Standards, Foundations of The Great Turning: Humanity at The Crossroads, Permaculture Education, and more. The photograph was taken at The People's Climate March where she ran into former student, Tsechu Dolma, who also recently won the Brower Youth Award for her work in Nepal around climate change and food security. |
Shellie is an environmental policy and planning professional, adjunct professor, and doctoral student. Her work connects multiple disciplines including civic and human ecology, natural resource management, collaborative governance, sense of place, community planning, and environmental impact assessment. Shellie's current research efforts focus on resilience within social-ecological systems and equity planning..
She holds a Master's of Applied Science in Environmental Policy and Management: Natural Resource Management from the University of Denver. She currently teaches at the University of Redlands, a private liberal arts university located in Redlands, CA. Shellie teaches Introduction to Environmental Studies and Environmental Impact Assessment. She is a doctoral student at Prescott College studying within the discipline of Sustainability Education.
Kristen is a writer, scholar, and educator originally from Worcester, Massachusetts. Kristen's research looks at diet as the most intimate human connection to the natural world. Her work views diet as an indicator of biocultural diversity, and at sustainable diets as a link between human health and agroecology.
A student at Prescott College's PhD in Sustainability Education program, Kristen's doctoral program has focused on sustainable diets, biocultural diversity, diet change and indigenous foodways, human health and nutrition, resilience theory, multi species perspectives, local food systems, permaculture, climate change and diet change, and indigenous research methods. Follow this link to her resources and this link to see related annotations. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Saint Mary's College of California, where she currently teaches courses on sustainability and social justice in the January Term program. Kristen lives in Berkeley with her partner and two children. |