‘Through their eyes and ears’: Creating new knowledge for climate education through co-productive practices

Portus, Rosamund; Williams, Sara-Jayne

Abstract

Despite climate change being a well-established fact, public perception of the current climate situation as being an emergency is a relatively recent phenomenon. O’Neill and Nicholson-Cole (2009, p.361) wrote of the tendency to see climate change as “an impersonal and distant issue”. Yet, as is made evident through both extensive research and the increase in movements such as Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Futures, public discourse around climate change is shifting towards understanding it as a crisis that is occurring in the here and now (Flynn et al., 2021). The increased visibility of climate issues has caused feelings of eco-anxiety, grief, and helplessness, particularly in young people, to become an ever-more common experience (Hickman, 2020).

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 15th invitational seminar on environmental & sustainability education research
• Start Date: Jun 13, 2022
• End Date: Jun 16, 2022
• Acceptance Date: Mar 31, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Oct 4, 2022
• Publication Date: Oct 4, 2022
• Deposit Date: Oct 5, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 6, 2022
• Pages: 137-139
• Book Title: Challenges for environmental and sustainability education research in times of climate crisis:15TH invitational seminar on environmental & sustainability education research
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10019138
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