Matthew Pye is a Philosophy Teacher, an Author (books on the climate crisis, e.g. "Plato Tackles Climate Change"), and the Founder of the Climate Academy.
This very innovative education programme was founded in 2011 by Matthew, to promote systemic understanding of sustainability and climate change for senior secondary schools students but also for schools.
In this TALK Matthew explains the objectives and details of the Climate Academy, and the 3 pillars to it that can be summarized as Systems understanding (learn), Civic engagement (mobilise), systems entrepreneurship (lead).
He largely insist on the necessity of first having a system view of the problems to properly frame them (referring to competences as defined by the GreenComp).
This certainly does not mean that this pillar is sufficient. Once students have a systemic understanding of the climate crisis, they need to act in a way which is “system-informed” and continue to acquire new competences, first and foremost action competences, going beyond individual action, which is far from sufficient, and changing their behaviour through experiential learning. They need to learn, but also to be mobilised and to lead.
Questions:
01:40 What is concretely the Climate Academy?
04:30 How do you promote Green competences in the Climate Academy?
17:15 What do you see as the main challenges facing climate change education and the priorities on which it should focus?
More information:
The Official website of the Climate Academy: www.theclimateacademy.org
The website of Matthew Pye: www.matthewpye.eu
The Writing on the Wall Erasmus+ official website: www.thewritingsonthewall.org
Are you interested to watch previous episodes? Check the Education for Climate TALK
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