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This important and timely book provides an overview of climate change and highlights the importance of including climate change education in primary schools. It emphasises the importance of cross-curricular pedagogical approaches with a focus on climate justice, providing in-depth assistance for teaching children aged 3 -13 years.
List of contents
Introduction
Anne Dolan
Section1: Theory and Philosophical Approaches
1. Teaching climate change: setting the context
Anne Dolan
2. A Thematic Approach to Teaching Climate Change
Fionnuala Tynan
3. The World's Religious Traditions and Global Climate Disruption
Patricia Kieran
4. A Reflective Approach to Climate Change Education
Kathleen Horgan
5. Early Beginnings: Fostering Positive Dispositions towards Climate Education in Early Years Classrooms
Deirdre Breatnach, Mary Moloney and Jennifer Pope
Section 2: Climate Change Education: Literacy based approaches
6. Climate Change, Picturebooks and Primary School Children
Mary Roche
7. Listening, re-acting and acting: Stories from plants and animals to elicit empathy and dialogue about climate change, in the classroom and beyond
Miriam Hamilton
8. Using climate change as the context for a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach in the primary classroom
Siobhán Ní Mhurchú
Section 3: Climate Change Education: STEAM
9. Bringing Climate Change Alive in the Science Classroom through Science Communication and Engineering STEM Challenges
Maeve Liston
10. Exploring Climate Change Education Outside the Classroom
Anne O Dwyer
11. Do you see what I see? A Visual Lens for Exploring Climate Change
Anne Marie Morrin
12. The Grow Room: An artistic exploration of Climate Change
Tanya Power
13. Is Plastic Really Fantastic or is it Something More Drastic?
Anne Dolan
Section 4: Climate Change Education: Pedagogies of hope and action
14. Geography, Global Learning and Climate Justice: Geographical Aspects of Teaching Climate Change
Anne Dolan
15. Exploring Climate Change through an Historical Lens
Anne Dolan and Eileen O'Sullivan
16. Climate Change Education through Active Citizenship
Margaret Nohilly
17. Ecological Awareness: A Cornerstone to Developing a Healthy Christian Spirituality
Maurice Harmon
18. Creating Teaching Resources in Response to the Rapidly Changing Nature of Climate Change
Brighid Golden
19. Negotiating Environmental Protection Through Drama
Margaret O Keeffe and Joanna Parkes
20. Moving towards Change: The Contribution of Physically Educated Communities
Richard Bowles
21. Pedagogy of Hope: Futures Teaching for Climate Change
Anne Dolan
About the author
Anne M. Dolan is a lecturer in primary geography with the Department of Learning, Society and Religious Education in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Summary
This important and timely book provides an overview of climate change and highlights the importance of including climate change education in primary schools. It emphasises the importance of cross-curricular pedagogical approaches with a focus on climate justice, providing in-depth assistance for teaching children aged 3 -13 years.
