There are ways to convey the hard scientific facts about climate change and help young generations adapt in the face of adversity and manage change over time.
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The climate emergency can’t be addressed with simplistic solutions. A network of Indigenous communities in Brazil invites us to reorient colonial approaches and embrace deeper change.
Peatlands have been central to how northern European folklore has explored fear and a sense of the supernatural for hundreds of years. Their persistence is also key to slowing down climate change.
Canada has an opportunity to become a world leader in early childhood education. With monumental federal support, this is the time to build a sustainable and relevant early education system.
Some designers, makers and consumers are imploring us not to stop sewing after the pandemic because of the potential for utilitarian, psychological and environmental benefits.
Insects are plentiful and inexpensive. Even when children aren’t attending school in person, they can learn from the encounters they have with insects outside.
Moving classes outside deserves serious consideration not only for better ventilation, but also to introduce more education devoted to learning on, from and with the land.
Researchers who visited parks throughout Alberta’s bear and cougar country want to know if parks education is improving park-friendly behaviour.
With colleges and universities having moved their instruction online due to COVID-19, an ecologist shows how service learning can take place in the virtual world as well.
Picture this change: Through collaborative garden networks, teachers, schools, children, community partners and universities inspire real learning and transformation for a more sustainable world.
Talking about energy transitions could help overcome the impasse we seem to have reached on climate change.
By leading school children through the wonders of the natural world, teachers could help raise environmental stewards.
A filmmaker, her students and community partners create a multi-platform documentary and study guide to teach swamp literacy and care through a trip into the Everglades.
New energy to advocate for planetary health could be unleashed through career guidance that prepares future generations for climate change while inspiring them to envision a meaningful future.
When parents walk in the forest with their children and us and see how children are drawn to spiral snails, together we see how connections with the land are critical for the Earth’s future.
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PhD Candidate, Doctor of Social Sciences, Royal Roads University
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Professor of Early Childhood Education, Western University
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Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, Western University
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Assistant professor of Indigenous Literatures, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Science Education, Monash University
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Professor of Environmental Education and Civic Ecology, Cornell University
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