It’s the greatest issue facing humanity. So why isn’t climate change on the curriculum?

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Tuesday 24 September 2019


It’s the greatest issue facing humanity. So why isn’t climate change on the curriculum?

The Irish Times:

Lucy Sky Dunne’s awakening as a climate activist came not on the streets of a school strike, nor on social media, but in a classroom.

The key for the 14-year-old student was just one hour a week spent exploring climate change in a course on sustainability which was piloted in her school. 

This single hour propelled Dunne, along with fellow members of the Student Climate Activist Network, to call for the prioritisation of a lesser-known form of literacy within the education system: the ecological. Read article


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