Educating Students for Climate Action
Distraction or Higher-Education Capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684956 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernando Reimers (0000-0002-8081-3663, corresponding author), Fernando M Reimers |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 153 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-261 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_02078 |
| OpenAlex | W4399202215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay examines how universities are responding to demands to educate students for climate action. I argue for a whole-of-university approach, in which sustainability becomes part of the mission of the university, and translates into reimagined forms of education, research, outreach, and management of the university operations. This approach runs counter to the most common response of universities, incremental to new demands, and is likely to take place only in institutions with greater capacity for innovation. Strategy and knowledge are key resources to support such innovation, drawing on the comparative analysis of the global experience of higher education, as there are already high rates of institutional innovation globally in educating for climate action
Action (physics · Action research · Capital (architecture · Distraction · Geography · Higher education · Outreach · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Sustainability · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Psychology · Sustainability in Higher Education
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |