Editorial: Exploring issues in secondary subject English: Reconnecting curriculum, policy and practice

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Teachers in the UK and many other jurisdictions have little if any formal training in climate change education which raises difficult questions about sequencing, progression, pedagogy and curriculum organisation (Greer at al., 2023). It also challenges us to consider our relationship with nature and acknowledge different ways of knowing and understanding. When examined in detail, mitigation and adaptation responses – which are all too often seen as ‘solutions’ to climate change – are actually rather forlorn prospects. And if we simply present pupils with climate change facts, there is a danger they will come to see environmental action as a desperate and unequal race against time.

‘The prospects for the future may look increasingly bleak; yet without slovenia email list hope, vision and imagination, education is fatally flawed.’

The prospects for the future may look increasingly bleak; yet without hope, vision and imagination, education is fatally flawed. One response has been for educators to focus on the natural world and on small-scale initiatives which engage children in positive action, especially in the immediate environment.