“It makes me angry. REALLY angry” : exploring emotional responses to climate change education

Abstract: • Consideration of emotional response to climate education in a primary classroom • Exploration of emotions that teaching about climate change may raise for teacher, researcher and pupil • Identification of gender and cultural bias in children’s climate mitigation visions • Use of three stage approach to climate education with emotion navigated, not ignored Purpose: Climate change education and the emotional consequences this topic raises in the classroom has been largely ignored by researchers. This paper considers the emotional response to climate education in a primary classroom (age 9-10 years) in England and begins to explore the emotions that teaching about climate change may raise for both teacher, researcher and pupil.  Design: Part of a long- term ethnographic project in a school in England. Analysis of c60, 9-10-year olds drawings, participant observation notes and research diaries. Limitations: This is a small study - further research with larger numbers, different ages .... https://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/4551

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: “It makes me angry. REALLY angry” ; volume:20 ; number:4 ; day:14 ; month:01 ; year:2022 ; Journal of social science education ; 20, Heft 4 (14.01.2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Whitehouse, Sarah ; Jones, Verity

Further information

• DOI: 10.11576/jsse-4551
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022020918363921556065
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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