From Climate Anxiety to Climate Resilience and Regeneration in Education

Together with educators and experts, we are working on a new approach to climate education.

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Welcome to the Clarity Project

In Europe, climate education tends to focus on teaching complex scientific facts that pose existential threats, without adequate consideration for the learners’ emotional capacities. Besides, the inner competences needed for collective action to address today’s polycrisis lack attention. This situation contributes to rising levels of stress and anxiety in children, youth, and teachers, with devastating societal impacts. A radical shift in primary, secondary and higher education, as well as in teacher and educator training, is urgently needed to foster planetary health and well-being. We are working on this shift, together with European educators and experts.

The resources we have produced include:

Toolbox

Lesson plans and activities for teachers and learners! The transformative climate resilience education toolbox turns the adapted framework into a comprehensive toolbox that educators can directly use in their teaching. The toolbox covers the knowledge that needs to be acquired, the tools that can be used with and/or by the younger generation, as well as the skills that children and youth need to build, according to a trauma-informed approach.

Learning Framework

Based on our research and consultations, we have adapted and operationalised the GreenComp Framework to a “transformative climate resilience education framework for children and youth” – providing clear guidance for educators on pedagogical approaches to GreenComp suitable for young learners, considering climate anxiety.

Policy Brief

The results of the research and framework formulation resulted in a policy brief targeting Education Policy Stakeholders, synthesising how to integrate the adapted framework into policy and school curricula. The focus is on sensitising and training educators concerning climate-anxiety and fostering transformation.

Learning Materials

An online self-paced course for educators that ensures that educators have the opportunity to build their own transformative skills and competencies before teaching their learners. The materials contribute to the continuous professional development of educators, by building capacities for innovative and competence-based teaching.

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The project started in autumn 2023 and will run until spring 2026. We will keep you up to date on new results and interesting articles here.

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