International Mother Earth Day
The 22 April marks the third Mother Earth Day
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Category: Climate Change
Lots of snakes but where are the ladders? Building environment-smart learning friendly schools responsive to extreme weather
Anyone who has ever been in a concrete-walled, corrugated iron-rooved building in the heat of the dry season or experienced the noise of a tropical rainstorm will appreciate how this can impact on learning and teaching.
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Greening schools: Visible thinking routines for leveraging environmental education in Pakistan
Green school programmes take on various forms and names worldwide, but at their core, they embrace a “whole school approach". This approach seeks to involve students, educators, and the local community to enhance the school environment and inspire students to identify and address environmental issues at the local level.
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Girls and climate justice education: Experience from two initiatives
Young people in rural Africa produce minimal carbon emissions, yet are on the frontline of the crisis. Their experiences of the climate crisis in their daily lives include flooding, damage to their schools, reduced productivity of smallholder plots and hunger, which affects their ability to learn.
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Building Climate-Smart and Resilient Education Systems: Ways to Navigating Tomorrow’s Challenges
In this blog, we undertake a multidimensional analysis, discussing the definitional nuances of climate-smart education, assessing its role in fostering climate literacy and resilience, and scrutinising the challenges plaguing the current educational landscape.
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Breaking beyond classroom walls to learn IN nature for climate justice
In this third instalment of our blog series, we hear from two more projects – one based in the UK and another running in the USA, Australia and newly expanded to the UK. These projects demonstrate ways in which environmental education can extend beyond the walls of the classroom and…
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Pedagogies for climate justice: Helping young people be hopeful for the future
In this latest instalment of our blog series, we hear from two research projects – one based in India, the other in the Maldives and the UK – that have used pedagogical practices to help young learners respond to climate change through futures framing and cross-cultural dialogue.
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Education that listens to those most affected by climate change
In this Education for Climate Justice blog series, we bring you new research, case studies and examples of education for climate action from across the globe. We aim to provoke discussion and encourage learning and collaborations that promote environmental and social justice through new models and practices of education. This…
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Conversations for Change: Response to FCDO position paper ‘Addressing the climate, environment and biodiversity crises in and through girls’ education’
The resounding message that emerged from the UKFIET event is that the status quo is unacceptable: education needs to change. In this blog, we welcome FCDO’s commitment to delivering this change, and offer recommendations for where more needs to be done.
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Visualising Conversations for Change: the Future of Education for Global Climate Justice Conference
‘Conversations for Change: the Future of Education for Global Climate Justice’ was a one day conference hosted by UKFIET in November 2022. It was an opportunity for critical...
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Just and Ambitious: The Future of Education for Global Climate Justice
Urgent action is needed by governments and leaders across the sector if education is going to play its part in achieving climate justice. In the week before COP27, this was the clear message that emerged from climate activists, policymakers, NGO staff, academics and donors from across the globe at a…
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Conversations for Change: The Future of Education for Global Climate Justice
The impact of human-induced climate change is being felt across the globe. It is leading to weather and climate extremes, and affecting human society and development –...
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