A Comprehensive Approach to Water Literacy in the Context of Climate Change

被引:3
作者
Boon, Helen Joanna [1 ]
机构
[1] James Cook Univ, Coll Arts Soc & Educ, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
来源
EDUCATION SCIENCES | 2024年 / 14卷 / 06期
关键词
climate change; ethics; school; teacher; water cycle; hydrosocial cycle; SYSTEM THINKING SKILLS; ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL; TEACHER BELIEFS; CONCEPTIONS; KNOWLEDGE; EDUCATION; STUDENTS; MIDDLE;
D O I
10.3390/educsci14060564
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Anthropogenic climate change is impacting human survival through its impact upon water quality and availability. An urgent ethical imperative is thus raised for education policy makers and schools, particularly in the Australian and Asia Pacific regions, to adopt a curriculum to help students mitigate and adapt to the dire consequences caused by a warming planet. Through a blue transdisciplinary school curriculum, students will better understand and respond to the broader aspects of what is referred to as the hydrosocial cycle. A school move towards a blue curriculum requires educational policy to mandate an emphasis on the climate change effects upon the water cycle. An effective shift to a blue curriculum also requires that teachers' ethical perspectives and sensitivities are sharpened through their tertiary education courses. This is needed so they develop confidence and pedagogy for teaching anthropogenic climate change generally, something still missing from Australian and other classrooms around the world, and, more specifically, for teaching the hydrosocial cycle. The Four Component Model of Ethical Decision Making is offered as a useful framework to guide teachers in examining their values and motivations when teaching potentially confronting topics such as the impacts of climate change upon the hydrosocial cycle.
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