Climate change teaching supporting sustainability transition

The project targets pupils aged 12-18 – a cohort that has great potential to contribute to so-called sustainability transitions (ST) connected to climate change (CC) in the near future.

But it is impossible for individual teachers to stay up-to-date with the research on (CC) and (ST) as well as with didactical research on how to communicate this content in their teaching in an efficient way. This project will therefore support teachers to better prepare their students for their future as agents of change.

We will do so by involving teachers in Co-creation Workshops (CoW) and through teaching resources published on a digital platform. The aims are:1.

Empowering pupils (≈ 39.000) to become action competent to tackle CC; i.e. to be able to bridge the well-known knowledge-action gap.2.

Supporting (≈1.950) teachers/teacher students to achieve aim 1 through Co-creation Workshops (CoW) where they develop lesson plans (scripts for teaching) and teaching materials together with researchers, building on insights from didactics and CC and ST research. Subsequently, the teachers perform the lessons with approx. 39.000 pupils (aim 1).

Pupils’ responses are carefully documented and fed back to CoW for an iterative process of revision of lesson plans, etc.3.

Supporting (≈20.000) extra teachers/teacher students to achieve aim 1 by disseminating (≈500) lesson plans and teaching materials created in CoW through a national digital platform.