Pedagogy of Climate Change: an Introduction (original) (raw)

As noted in the scientific literature, not only does climate change degrade the environment, diminish natural resources, increase health issues and decrease quality of life, but it is also very likely to exacerbate inequalities and provoke armed conflicts in the future, due to resource scarcities and mass migrations. To mitigate these consequences of environmental degradation (it's too late to prevent them altogether) energetic national policies and free trade agreements must be radically transformed. Such measures will require a major change in the dominant sociocultural paradigm and a transformation of visions, values, behaviors and actions of citizens and their leaders. Climate change education has a major role to play in that project, including all formal, nonformal, and informal endeavours and initiatives necessary to build a massive translocal social movement enabling the transition towards economies based on renewable energies and and participative democracies. Inspired by the references cited in the sections that follow, a typology of challenges and obstacles to climate change education follows.