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Transformative climate change education and the school caretaker: a more-than-human analysis with young people

Liebhaber, N., Ramjan, C. , Frick, M., Mannion, G. and Keller, L. (2023) Transformative climate change education and the school caretaker: a more-than-human analysis with young people. Environmental Education Research, (doi: 10.1080/13504622.2023.2286936) (Early Online Publication)

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Schools are central to climate change education and climate-friendly transformations both as places which actually produce CO2 emissions and, above all, as educational institutions. Following a new materialist, transdisciplinary approach, we research here some of the entanglements that constitute schools as whole institutions. As part of the research-education-cooperation k.i.d.Z.21_aCtiOn2 (Austrian Climate Research Program), our innovative approach meant that the situational analyses were conducted both by young people and collaborating researchers. The experiences and accounts were captured in situational maps that illustrate the entangled agencies of people, discussions, places and matter relevant to CO2 reductions and transformation attempts. The analysis of those maps led to new perspectives on the intra-actions between the material and the discursive in schools. In particular, the caretakers’ entanglements with areas relevant to climate-friendly transformations are revealed as critical to transformative climate change education. We conclude with an outlook on schools becoming transformative, climate-friendly places by building on these kinds of entanglements and explicitly incorporating non-pedagogical aspects as part of a whole-school approach.

Item Type:	Articles
Additional Information:	The project k.i.d.Z.21_aCtiOn2 is funded by the Climate and Energy Fund and carried out within the framework of the Austrian Climate Research Program-ACRP.
Keywords:	Situational Analysis, Climate-friendly schools, whole-school approach, intra-actions, new materialism.
Status:	Early Online Publication
Refereed:	Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:	Ramjan, Mrs Claire
Authors:	Liebhaber, N., Ramjan, C., Frick, M., Mannion, G., and Keller, L.
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
College/School:	College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Pedagogy, Praxis & Faith
Journal Name:	Environmental Education Research
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1350-4622
ISSN (Online):	1469-5871
Published Online:	24 November 2023
Copyright Holders:	Copyright © 2023 the author(s)
First Published:	First published in Environmental Education Research 2023
Publisher Policy:	Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence
Data DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2286936

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Deposit and Record Details

ID Code:	321611
Depositing User:	Mrs Claire Ramjan
Datestamp:	18 Mar 2024 09:56
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2024 02:32
Date of acceptance:	12 November 2023
Date of first online publication:	24 November 2023
Date Deposited:	18 March 2024
Data Availability Statement:	No