Teaching Climate Change

“This highly original and radical book addresses the rapidly growing need for an accessible climate pedagogy which represents the different dimensions of the climate-change challenge and can be adapted to a variety of contexts.”

Ted Shepherd, PhD, Grantham Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading, UK

“This book elegantly builds on the pedagogic merit of acknowledging the climate system as a teacher. Weaving together stories of different ways of knowing and being, and of the sciences that speak from within disciplinary and inter-disciplinary boundaries, it gives teachers a conceptual tool kit that helps students see beyond facts and make sense of given structures and networks of interactions and relations. The richest harvest is that teachers can use this book to open young minds to pluralism, values and justice, instill competencies to question given disciplinary knowledge, and make informed choices today, when climate change challenges all our current frameworks for making sense of the world.”

Rajeswari S. Raina, PhD, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, India

“Written from the perspective of a teacher-scholar, this book demonstrates how it is possible--and why it is imperative--for educators from even the most specialized of scientific disciplines to engage in the transformation of education in an era of climate change. Vandana's message is crystal clear: that teaching climate change must transcend disciplines, disrupt power hierarchies, embrace the complexities of Earth systems and social systems, be radically rooted in climate justice, and be delivered through stories that do not shy away from climate emotion. This book is essential reading for any educator seeking radically new pedagogies that nourish the seeds of transformative climate action.”

Christina Kwauk, PhD, Social Scientist and Policy Analyst, Founder/Director, Kwauk & Associates; Research Director, Unbounded Associates

“Educators around the world are beginning to address the climate emergency, and the best examples of climate education interrogate how social inequalities shape the contours of this global problem. This book is a valuable contribution to this growing literature, for Vandana Singh develops a model of justice-based climate education that transcends space, time, and the scholarly disciplines while also taking seriously issues of power and injustice. Educators at all levels will encounter valuable ideas to inform their practice while also learning about how to transform broader educational structures toward a more just and humane future.”

Joseph A. Henderson, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Paul Smith’s College, Co-editor of Teaching Climate Change in the United States