Professional Learning Course: Climate Action Education
Climate Action Education - For Educators
A three-part online professional learning series for educators (early learning, primary, secondary, tertiary and community settings).
Climate change education is no longer just about helping learners understand climate science, its also about navigating questions of agency, action, uncertainty, justice and what meaningful climate action can look like in their own communities.
Guided by Associate Professor Peta White, this Professional Learning Series provides space to examine the ideas and approaches behind effective climate action education, and consider how they translate into your own teaching practice.
Learning in collaboration and in the comfort of our own home, we will explore and improve your practice as you grow in confidence as a climate action educator. Between sessions, you will have opportunities to consider your own practice and test ideas in your educational context.
By the end of the series, you will have:
new ways to approach climate learning through action, agency and transformation
frameworks and ideas to apply to your own educational setting
connections with other educators exploring similar questions
a clearer sense of how to support learners to participate in meaningful climate action
a Certificate of Completion for 12 hours of professional learning
Delivered across three sessions:
- 5:00 am - 6:30 am
16 November: Defining Climate Action Education
Session 1: With so much language and terminology around we will get on the same page in this first session. Through collaborative tasks in an online learning space we will explore and confirm definitions and understandings for key climate action education terms. We will also consider key outcomes from research informed practice and consider how these impact your own practice. You will reflect on your clarity and develop confidence by crafting your own applied definitions and curating your favourite tools.
- 5:00 am - 6:30 am
23 November: Doing Climate Action Education
Session 2: As educators you will be experiencing climate action education in various ways. In this session we will explore your experiences as teachers and learners to discover tools, practices, and pedagogies that work for you in your context and with your learners. Strategies devised through the Enacting Climate Change Education (Australian Research Council funded research) project provide detailed insights that can be adapted to suit your context. Priority is given to contemporary system mapping strategies.
- 5:00 am - 6:30 am
30 November: Developing Teacher and Learner Agency
Session 3: The ultimate goals of all climate action education is to develop teacher and learner agency. In this final session we will explore what this means, how it can be facilitated, and why our education strategies must prioritise agency as outcomes. We will also reflect on the series and set goals for moving the learning into action in the near future.
Who should attend?
This series is designed for all educators including educators from early learning, primary, secondary, tertiary, community and families in/non formal and formal settings.
Pre-service teachers are welcome. This session will also benefit educational leaders. You will be invited to reflect as an educator and to provide your own examples of teaching and learning. You will also be invited to plan for future education opportunities.
You do not need to have an existing climate education or specialist environmental knowledge. Bring your service context, your questions and your willingness to participate.
Your Facilitator
Associate Professor Peta White
Peta White is an Associate Professor in Science and Environmental Education at Deakin University. She is the Co-director of the Regenerating Futures Faculty Research Group – a transdisciplinary collective attending to Anthropocene challenges and decolonising practices while also building researcher capacity. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education. Peta’s research leadership has three narratives: science and biology education; sustainability, environmental, and climate change/action education; and collaborative/activist embodied methodologies.
Course fee
AAEE Members: $200
Non-members: $400
Become an AAEE member to access discounted professional learning, connect with a national network of environmental educators, and support the future of environmental education in Australia. Membership from $60 per year.
If finances are a challenge, please contact us if you would like to apply for a AAEE member scholarship - email us at admin@aaee.org.au.
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