Education in times of climate change: Facilitating learning to build a culture of climate-protection
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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.4220Keywords:
environmental education, climate change, low-carbon culture
Abstract
Climate change presents significant educational challenges: it is necessary to know about its causes, to recognise the roots of the problem and to be aware of its consequences. This is necessary to build a more realistic perception of climate risks and better understand our vulnerabilities. But it is especially important to know about the solutions; urgent training is needed to build a «low-carbon» culture to prevent dangerous interference with the global climate. Educational institutions – both formal and informal – must consider their contribution to these needs for knowledge and social change, because climate change will impact our future heavily and because everyone plays a role in the complex network of responsibilities that fuel it.
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Francisco Heras Hernández, CENEAM (National Centre for Environmental Education) in Valsaín (Segovia, Spain).
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