Ignorance/ Denial-Fear/ Paralysis/ Engagement/ Commitment: Reflections on a Decade Teaching Climate Change Law
Vol. 102 (2015), Teaching About Climate Change
Vol. 102 (2015)

Ignorance/ Denial-Fear/ Paralysis/ Engagement/ Commitment: Reflections on a Decade Teaching Climate Change Law

Teaching About Climate Change
https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2015.206
Published 2015-06-22
Eleanor Stein
Albany Law School State University of New York at Albany LLM Candidate, Climate Change Law & Policy, University of Strathclyde
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Stein, E. (2015). Ignorance/ Denial-Fear/ Paralysis/ Engagement/ Commitment: Reflections on a Decade Teaching Climate Change Law. Radical Teacher, 102, 17–23. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2015.206
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Abstract

Teaching about climate change at any level means introducing students to the fearsome realities of our rapidly changing earth.  But more than transmitting curriculum content, this teaching requires opening a space where students can investigate, research and interrogate the logic of the media, corporate, and government discourse on climate change.

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References

Basic climate change bibliography for teachers:

To keep track of the global climate negotiations, www.unfccc.org.

Mark Hertsgaard, HOT: LIVING THROUGH THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS ON EARTH

Naomi Klein, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

Elizabeth Kolbert, FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE

Elizabeth Kolbert, THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

Bill McKibben, EAARTH

Bill McKibben, Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719