Climate change and sustainability focused professional development for all teachers of all subjects is essential to equip young people to live in a climate altered future, a new report has claimed.
Governments, international non-governmental organisations, academics and teachers’ professional associations must prioritise teachers’ professional development in order to ensure all young people experience effective school-based climate change and sustainability education, researchers say.
Researchers from University College London and the University of Stirling, working on the report for the British Council, found that while climate change and sustainability education features in half of national policy documents globally, this is often superficial, fragmented and focused on science and geography curricula.
Climate change and sustainability education is also represented and implemented in education through a range of terms including Environmental Education, Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education.
