Teaching about Climate Justice (Academy 4 Social Civics)

• About this resource

  This website comprises resources to support educators’ own engagement with climate justice, and resources that can be used with students at a range of educational stages. There are brief commentaries about the resources, and the organisations that have produced them. 

  In the words of the creators of this website:

  “Teaching students about climate justice is an important part of teaching about climate change because the social, economic, and other impacts on a substantial portion of our population are often overlooked. By learning about climate justice and becoming aware of how climate change affects some members of our communities, students will be better prepared to advocate for our government officials to do more for victims of climate change. The lesson plans, articles, and informational sites listed will help educators to teach about climate justice effectively in their classrooms”.

• Testimonies from educators

  This website was sourced by the research team, rather than recommended by an educator taking part in the research. However, educators frequently talked about the need for resources that could synthesise ideas and enable students to engage meaningfully with climate justice.

  For example:

  “You can’t just tell them, “oh well, that’s what is happening”, you’ve got to give them the tools to unpick it for themselves and to want to say something about it. That’s what I like about the geography of it, because [we know] from the geography of it is that the climate changes all the time. So you can understand how it changes and why it changes, but it’s how we impact on it is the question.” Newcastle-based middle-school educator

  
  “It's kind of making the links that, looking at local things in their own area and being able to see a little bit of the bigger picture, or maybe in relation to countries where the kids in the school are. From that they open their eyes to how climate change is impacting different countries in that kind of way. But then I'd like them to feel powerful in a way that they can make some kind of impact, whatever it is. So there is some way out of it..” Dublin-based primary and secondary educator