William Finnegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 231166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Finnegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Finnegan |
| SIGNATURE | FINNEGAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9121-2567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Education and training for the climate
At the time of writing, the Natural History Museum in London is displaying an exhibition titled Fixing Our Broken Planet (see Figure 1): Figure 1. Fixing our Broken Planet, Natural History Museum
Rethinking education and training for the climate: Individuals, systems, narrative skills and economic transformation
Education and training (E&T) for the climate is gaining prominence in educational discourse. However, there is a danger that approaches focus on individual responsibility and changing the behaviours of learners rather than critically understanding and changing the system-level drivers of the climate crisis. Picking up litter is much more likely to be discussed than extractive economics. Therefore, we argue that the purpose of E&T for the climate …
Beyond whole-school approaches to sustainability: Social practices and practice architectures at secondary schools in England
The education sector is an important component of the UK's net zero strategy, in terms of both the carbon footprint of school buildings and operations, and the opportunities to teach about environmental issues and empower climate action. However, school sustainability is often narrowly defined around individual choices and behaviours by different school stakeholders, rather than the broader patterns of social practices. This qualitative study of …
It's beautiful, living without fear that the world will end soon’ – digital storytelling, climate futures, and young people in the UK and Ireland
This research explores two questions: how do young people imagine futures shaped by climate change and our collective response to the climate crisis, and what is the impact on young people of creatively engaging with the future? The participatory action research method of digital storytelling was adapted to explore climate futures, with thematic, visual and narrative analysis of the resulting videos. Young people articulated positive, negative an…
Educating for hope and action competence: A study of secondary school students and teachers in England
Young people and educators in the UK have called for changes in the education system to better prepare learners for a future shaped by climate change and our collective response to the climate crisis. This research explored both reported climate education practices and future outlooks through a questionnaire completed by 16–18-year-old secondary school students (n = 512) and teachers (n = 69) in England. The research participants had mixed emotio…
Modification of cirrus clouds to reduce global warming
Greenhouse gases and cirrus clouds regulate outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and cirrus cloud coverage is predicted to be sensitive to the ice fall speed which depends on ice crystal size. The higher the cirrus, the greater their impact is on OLR. Thus by changing ice crystal size in the coldest cirrus, OLR and climate might be modified. Fortunately the coldest cirrus have the highest ice supersaturation due to the dominance of homogeneous freez…
Cold New World: Growing up in a Harder Country
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters. With a New Epilogue
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue
Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid
William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, across the line, in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 elections evaluates the progress madeand not madetoward dismantling the apartheid system
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
Educating for hope and action competence: A study of secondary school students and teachers in England
Young people and educators in the UK have called for changes in the education system to better prepare learners for a future shaped by climate change and our collective response to the climate crisis. This research explored both reported climate education practices and future outlooks through a questionnaire completed by 16–18-year-old secondary school students (n = 512) and teachers (n = 69) in England. The research participants had mixed emotio…
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
It's beautiful, living without fear that the world will end soon’ – digital storytelling, climate futures, and young people in the UK and Ireland
This research explores two questions: how do young people imagine futures shaped by climate change and our collective response to the climate crisis, and what is the impact on young people of creatively engaging with the future? The participatory action research method of digital storytelling was adapted to explore climate futures, with thematic, visual and narrative analysis of the resulting videos. Young people articulated positive, negative an…
Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid
William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, across the line, in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 elections evaluates the progress madeand not madetoward dismantling the apartheid system
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue
Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid
William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, across the line, in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 elections evaluates the progress madeand not madetoward dismantling the apartheid system
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters. With a New Epilogue
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
Cold New World: Growing up in a Harder Country
Modification of cirrus clouds to reduce global warming
Greenhouse gases and cirrus clouds regulate outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and cirrus cloud coverage is predicted to be sensitive to the ice fall speed which depends on ice crystal size. The higher the cirrus, the greater their impact is on OLR. Thus by changing ice crystal size in the coldest cirrus, OLR and climate might be modified. Fortunately the coldest cirrus have the highest ice supersaturation due to the dominance of homogeneous freez…
It's beautiful, living without fear that the world will end soon’ – digital storytelling, climate futures, and young people in the UK and Ireland
This research explores two questions: how do young people imagine futures shaped by climate change and our collective response to the climate crisis, and what is the impact on young people of creatively engaging with the future? The participatory action research method of digital storytelling was adapted to explore climate futures, with thematic, visual and narrative analysis of the resulting videos. Young people articulated positive, negative an…
Educating for hope and action competence: A study of secondary school students and teachers in England
Young people and educators in the UK have called for changes in the education system to better prepare learners for a future shaped by climate change and our collective response to the climate crisis. This research explored both reported climate education practices and future outlooks through a questionnaire completed by 16–18-year-old secondary school students (n = 512) and teachers (n = 69) in England. The research participants had mixed emotio…
Beyond whole-school approaches to sustainability: Social practices and practice architectures at secondary schools in England
The education sector is an important component of the UK's net zero strategy, in terms of both the carbon footprint of school buildings and operations, and the opportunities to teach about environmental issues and empower climate action. However, school sustainability is often narrowly defined around individual choices and behaviours by different school stakeholders, rather than the broader patterns of social practices. This qualitative study of …
Education and training for the climate
At the time of writing, the Natural History Museum in London is displaying an exhibition titled Fixing Our Broken Planet (see Figure 1): Figure 1. Fixing our Broken Planet, Natural History Museum
Rethinking education and training for the climate: Individuals, systems, narrative skills and economic transformation
Education and training (E&T) for the climate is gaining prominence in educational discourse. However, there is a danger that approaches focus on individual responsibility and changing the behaviours of learners rather than critically understanding and changing the system-level drivers of the climate crisis. Picking up litter is much more likely to be discussed than extractive economics. Therefore, we argue that the purpose of E&T for the climate …
Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · History (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Economics (2 works)