Key Focus Areas
Framework for Shifting Paradigms in Climate Education
About the Key Focus Areas
There are 7 key focus areas to enhance climate and environmental education in PK-12, drawn from the current landscape and literature on teaching, learning, and research for climate and environmental literacy.
Transdisciplinary
Collaboration between diverse stakeholders and incorporating perspectives from various fields.
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Solutions are dynamic, innovative, intersectional, and interconnected endeavors .
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Interplay between social, environmental, and racial justices and indigenous sovereignty .
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Practices and approaches that are evolving to reflect research-driven approaches and knowledge from multiple sources
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Empowers students with essential skills, competencies, and dispositions necessary for active civic engagement and stewardship
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Empowers students with essential skills, competencies, and dispositions necessary for active civic engagement and stewardship
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