Reshaping our world
Collaborating with children for community-based climate change action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134626 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C D Trott (0000-0002-4400-4287, University of Cincinnati, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-62 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750319829209 |
| OpenAlex | W2921041007 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 34 |
This paper documents a collaborative, multi-site participatory action research project in collaboration with children to act on climate change within local community settings. The project was an after-school program that combined hands-on climate change educational activities with photovoice, a participatory action research method that uses digital photography as the basis for problem identification, group dialogue, and social change action. Grounded in transformative sustainability learning theory and integrated with an arts-based participatory action research methodology, the program was designed to strengthen children’s climate change awareness and sense of agency through youth-led action projects. After describing the program, this article details the collaborative action projects designed and carried out by 10- to 12-year-olds in each community (e.g., policy advocacy, tree-planting, community garden) as well as how the program facilitated children’s constructive climate change engagement through children’s enjoyment and agentic action. The critical importance of participatory process and collaborative action in strengthening children’s sense of agency is discussed
Action (physics · Action research · Agency (philosophy · Citizen journalism · Climate change · Economic growth · Participatory action research · Participatory GIS · Pedagogy · Photovoice · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Transformative learning · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Ecology
Australian young people’s perceptions of the commercial determinants of the climate crisis
Participatory Action Research and Participatory Evaluation. Analysis of Two Methodological Approaches to Promote Youth Agency and Participation
Children’s climate change meaning-making through photovoice
Imagine isto
Touching Outward
Finnish University Students’ Views on Climate Change Education and Their Own Ability to Act as Climate Educators
Students’ Knowledge of Climate Change, Mitigation and Adaptation in the Context of Constructive Hope
Educational Gardens and Climate Change Education
State of Emergency
Participatory and experiential learning methodologies in university extension programs
Creating a virtual space for collaborative project planning using the future creating workshop process
Engaging students in discussing global climate change issues with friends and family
Critical minds for a warming planet
An Existential Rabbit-Hole
Recentring the Political in Education for Sustainable Development
Civic science education for youth-driven water security
Climate change and youth development
From Being a Workforce to Agents of Change
Childhood nature connection and constructive hope
School gardens as socio-ecological learning systems
New ways of seeing? A reflexive case study on the possibilities of teaching verticality and aerial vision through participatory balloon photography
A child today, an adult tomorrow
The effects of climate change on mental health and psychological well-being
I want to talk about climate change, but I wish I didn’t have to
Towards agentic youth engagement
Environment Actors Confronting a Post Climate-Related Disaster Scenario
The importance of belonging
A review of photovoice applications in environment, sustainability, and conservation contexts
Just Participatory Research with Young People Involved in Climate Justice Activism
Merging the arts and sciences for collaborative sustainability action
Looking inward, outward, and forward
Photovoice
Small steps and small wins’ in young people’s everyday climate crisis activism
It's beautiful, living without fear that the world will end soon’ – digital storytelling, climate futures, and young people in the UK and Ireland
Intergenerational solidarities for climate healing
What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth
Visualizing nature
Climate change education for transformation
Through their lenses
Climate change education in semiarid and coastal regions of Mexico
Helping young people cope with eco-anxiety
When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”
Children’s constructive climate change engagement
Intergenerational climate conversations
The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum
Engaging young people with alternative climate futures
Let it Bee
Synthesizing the impacts of information and communication technology advancement and educational developments on environmental sustainability
Children's agency and well-being in spaces shaped by colonial violence
Pragmatism and Methodology
Youth as Climate Change Messengers
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand
Climate Education
Arts-based Methods in Socially Engaged Research Practice
Children's Participation
Self-efficacy
Constructing alternatives
Inside UN Climate Change Negotiations
Empowering young people and strengthening resilience
Young islanders, the meteorological imagination, and the art of geopolitical engagement
A model for developing and assessing youth-based environmental engagement programmes
Education for strategic environmental behavior
A case for climate justice education
Remembering the future
Beyond individual behaviour change
Action Research with Children
Imagining Participatory Action Research in Collaboration with Children
Youth Empowerment in Context
Flint Photovoice
Participatory Action Research
Performance for Resilience
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Using PhotoStory to capture irrigators' emotions about water policy and sustainable development objectives
Achieving transformative sustainability learning
Hope and anticipation in education for a sustainable future
Childhood, Politics and Ambiguity
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |