Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action: Toward an Sdg 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change

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The world is on a track to true climate catastrophe, with unprecedented heat, floods, wildfires, and storms setting new records almost weekly. To avoid a climate disaster, we need rapid, transformative, and sustained action as well as a major shift in our thinking--a shift strong enough to make the climate crisis a center of our social, political, economic, personal, and educational life.

Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action is one of the best scorecards in comparative education for keeping track of this drama as it unfolds, shedding light on the global climate crisis like no other education writing today. This book turns to our curricula, our education systems, and our communities for a response on how to effectively achieve Target 4.7 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and Global Citizenship Education (GCED). The message from key stakeholders, including students, educators, and leaders of civil society, is driven home with passion and uncommon clarity: We can and must stave off the worst of climate change by building climate action into the world’s pandemic recovery.

Radhika Iyengar, Ph.D. (2011), Teachers College, Columbia University, is the Education Director at the Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University. She directs many international education programs across sub-Saharan Africa and in South Asia.

Christina Kwauk, Ph.D. (2014), University of Minnesota, is a Fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She authored Roadblocks to Quality Education in a Time of Climate Change, on which this edited volume builds.