Justice and Equity in Climate Change Education

Elizabeth M. Walsh is Associate Professor in Science Education and Meteorology and Climate Science at San José State University, USA.

• Introduction: Climate Change Education Must Be Education for Justice: Historical and Conceptual Foundations for Centering Equity in Climate Change Education Katherine Sover and Elizabeth M. WalshPart I. Theoretical Perspectives of Equity and Justice in Climate Change Education1. Bringing Climate Injustices to the Forefront: Learning from the Youth Climate Justice MovementRupinder Kaur Grewal, Ellen Field, and Paul Berger2. Psychological Perspectives of Climate Equity: Reducing Abstraction and Distance through Engaged EmpathyAnanya M. Matewos, Benjamin Torsney, and Doug Lombardi3. Public Pedagogy, Climate Change Activism and the Case for EcosocialismMike ColePart II. Case Studies and Enactments of Climate Change Education for Equity and Justice4. Equitable and Just by Design: Engaging Youth of Color in Climate Change EducationNa’Taki Osborne Jelks and Crystal Jennings5. A Course on Natural Disasters Gets Real: Living the Impacts of Climate Change in the US Virgin IslandsMichele L. Guannel, Gregory Guannel, Imani Daniel, Nailah Copemann, Angelisa Freeman, and Bethany Good6. "A Different Kind of Middleman": Preservice Science Teachers’ Agency for Climate Change EducationAsli Sezen-Barrie and Lucy Avraamidou7. Leadership in Eco-Justice Environmental Educational Practice: A Case for Climate Change Curricula through Poetic Inquiry that Involves Storytelling and Walking the LandKelly Young and Andrejs Kulnieks8. Land-Based Environmental Education as a Climate Change Resilience: A Learning Experience from a Cross-Cultural Community GardenRanjan Datta, Jean Kayira, and Prarthona Datta9. Children’s Environmental Identity Development in a Changing Arctic EnvironmentCarie Green10. Contested Agency and Authorship in Middle School Girls' Climate Science Digital Storytelling: Disentangling Individual and Collective AgencyElizabeth Smullen and Elizabeth M. Walsh

“Justice and Equity in Climate Change Education: Exploring Social and Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Education brings together the writings of researchers who have worked at the forefront of climate change education, and presents climate change education and conceptual frameworks for considering equity, fairness, and social dimension, ethics of climate change, research case studies and educational programs which seek to advance, theorize, and promote the voices of those who have been silenced and marginalized […]. This book is a worthy read for researchers, academics, educators, and policymakers with an interest in science education, social justice studies, and environmental sociology more broadly. In particular, this book is highly recommended for readers interested in climate change education, curriculum studies, and climate adaptation. With empirical results regarding climate change education in several countries, this book is useful for researchers to compare how climate change is addressed in various other countries.” - Diajeng Retno Kinanti Putri, Arni Nur Laila, Nur Asiah, Australian Journal of Environmental Education