ABSTRACT

What education should children and youth be offered about climate mitigation choices? Drawing on critical pedagogy, political ecology, and environmental justice, I here suggest the elaboration of a critical climate education that would provide citizens with knowledge and skills to respond to the climate crisis with responsible action. I argue that students need to learn to critically examine options in their own countries for reducing greenhouse emissions and to discuss whether or not each of these measures may contribute to climate justice in time and space. A critical climate education should also offer insight into reasons why some climate mitigation alternatives have been embraced instead of options that could provide more climate justice in time and space. The need for a critical climate education is illustrated with a case study about climate mitigation choices that have been made in Norway without concern for climate justice.

摘要

应该为儿童和青年提供关于减缓气候变化的选择的什么教育？我在此利用批判的教学法，政治生态学和环境正义，在这里建议制定一项关键的气候教育，为公民提供负责任的行动，以应对气候危机的知识和技能。我认为，学生需要学习批判性地研究自己国家减少温室气体排放的方案，并讨论这些措施中的每一项是否可能在时空上促进气候公正。至关重要的气候教育还应提供洞见，说明为什么采用某些减缓气候变化的替代方法，而不是可以在时间和空间上提供更多气候公正性的替代方法的原因。