A participatory student workshop on climate change and sustainability: a comparative case study

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作者：

Carole Larose

Christine Blaisot

Eleanor Burke

机构：

[1] Lycée Pierre Corneille de Rouen,

[2] FR- IFE-ENS Lyon,undefined

[3] L’école Edouard Herriot du Mesnil Esnard,undefined

[4] Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Associate Principal (retired),undefined

来源：

Sustainable Earth | / 5卷 / 1期

关键词：

Experiential learning; Participatory workshop; Climate change; Cross-age collaboration; Youth sustainability activism;

D O I：

10.1186/s42055-022-00048-x

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摘要：

Climate change is an environmental and existential issue of great urgency, especially for today’s youth. Until recently, the French national school curriculum had not given students much opportunity to learn about climate change (CC), its causes and repercussions, and mitigating measures to reach sustainable climate conditions. This article describes a six-week participatory, experiential workshop that brought together two groups of French students (one age 10 and the other age 16) to learn and teach each other about CC. Older students learned about the Conference of the Parties, COP21 Paris agreement and the IPCC climate findings and recommendations. Together the two groups developed greater understanding about CC, and proposed concrete environmental actions that they could undertake at home and in their local district to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We examine four products of their collaboration:

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