Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice

Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice shows educators how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective and in a transdisciplinary way, drawing on examples from the author’s own classroom.

Vandana Singh is a professor of Physics and Environment in the Department of Environment, Society and Sustainability at Framingham State University in Massachusetts, USA. She has been working for over a decade on a transdisciplinary, justice-centered pedagogy of climate change at the intersection of science, society and justice, with particular attention to marginalized communities in India and the US. Recent work includes chapters in Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalayas, Andes and Arctic (Routledge), Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action: Toward an SDG 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change (UNESCO-IBE), Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (Springer, forthcoming) as well as articles and opinion pieces in The Physics Teacher, Nature and Scientific American. She was a 2021 Climate Imagination Fellow at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. She facilitates the Education working group for My Climate Risk, a Lighthouse Activity of the World Climate Research Programme focusing on climate science and communities.