Climate Change Education: A summary of research reviews, assessment instruments, and ways forward.
Peter Freebody, founding member of CoolFutures, is the lead author of this report just published by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
We make available on this page additional materials related to this report. The report itself can be downloaded from the ASSA site.
See also this piece in The Conversation from 13 June 2023.
We make available on this page additional materials related to this report. The report itself can be downloaded from the ASSA site.
See also this piece in The Conversation from 13 June 2023.
Contents of the report:
Additional materials and web services:
- We draw on the first corpus to outline some general features of the current state of research on effective programs in CCE, including the changing rate of published research over the last decades, the way these research efforts cluster in terms of key concepts and interests, and the various educational settings on which they focus.
- The findings from our selection of reviews of effective educational interventions are summarised under five headings: 1) teaching and learning, 2) technologies and learning, 3) teacher education and professional development, 4) policy priorities, and 5) skills- and competency-based approaches.
- We summarise a selection of recent research papers that report on the development and validation of instruments to assess CC-related knowledge, skills, practices, and attitudes among school students and teachers. In light of the possibility of the OECD’s addressing environmental awareness, concern, and agency in its 2025 round of international student assessment, we include in this section aspects of the relationship between the study of climate and the development of students’ reading, writing, and management of multiple forms of representation.
- The paper closes with a discussion of the main conclusions to be drawn, some gaps in the research field, and some ways forward for educators and researchers in the area of CCE.
Additional materials and web services:
- Bibliography for the main report [PDF | CSV | RDF]
- Bibliography for the "Instruments" section [PDF]
- Topic mapping (Cluster Analysis) of the 317 references in (1), conducted by Simon Freebody [PDF]
- A web app that allows to investigate the bibliography database in basic form.
- SPARQL database endpoint with the bibliographic references as data. Presents the bibliography in hyperlinked form that can be queried using the SPARQL query language and/or a graphic user interface a (see here for introduction)
