Last week I had the pleasure of being aboard my friend’s sailing boat. This gorgeous wooden Hartley 18 footer is very unassuming. She underpromises and overdelivers. The main reason is that she was designed well, she’s been looked after and her captain is not afraid to take her out and about. In other words, she…
Activating Learner Agency in Climate Change Education The Trouble with E-Bikes! Climate change education faces a persistent challenge: translating knowledge and concern into meaningful action-taking by learners. While the Bicycle Model of climate change education (Cantell et al., 2019) provides a comprehensive framework encompassing knowledge, values, motivation, and action, we argue it remains insufficient to…
Is there something so important to learn we must change how we teach? I think so. But the question is so much broader than that. Is there something so important to learn, that we must learn how to teach it first? Getting closer… Perhaps the biggest question of all is this: As educators how are…
