Polar and Climate Change Education

Auteur

Gisele Arruda is a professor in Circumpolar Studies (energy, Arctic, climate change, environment and society). She is a member of the University of the Arctic, the U.S. Arctic Research Committee, country director of International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, New York (USA) and a council member of Polar Educators International. She belongs to multidisciplinary research groups in Canada, the United States, Iceland, Norway, Greenland, conducting research on Arctic governance, sea-ice retreat, sustainable energy systems, smart specialization, climate change, societal studies, corporate social responsibility and multicultural aspects of higher education.

Texte du rabat

This book presents ideas for strengthening the foundations for transformational change, polar and global education leadership in all stages of the education process.

Contenu

1. Polar and Global Citizenship Education How to equip the future global citizen through geo-capabilities and Education for Sustainable Development

Gisele Arruda

2. The School of Snow and Ice (SNOWI): professional development for middle school and high school educators in ice core science and climate change

Louise Huffman and Lars Demant-Poort

3. Ecology as the Foundation for Understanding and Integrating Basic Sciences.

Anne Farley Schoeffler

4. Using Place-Based Education to Teach About Climate Change and Connect to the Arctic

Regina Brinker

5. Sustainable education for the youngest The implementation of new technologies to foster the awareness for environmental problems for elementary and secondary school

Inga Beck

6. Citizen science and environmental education case study of project 'Salvemos el Rio Atoyac'

Gala Perez Gutierrez and Esther Madrid Morales

7. The Kids Will be Alright Interweaving Urban Design, Youth Perspectives, and Sustainability Education: A case study of the New International School of Japan.

Sebastian Krutkowski and Lionel Rogers

8. Instilling a Sense of Wonder in Elementary and High School Science Students: wonder-infused pedagogy makes a difference.

Betty Trummel

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