Competency Area 5
Key competences:
Societal agency, courage, innovation, collaboration, accountability, humility, care
Examples of guidance
- Encourage learners’ own engagement to speak up for communities and nature/ecosystems, and take collective action, both within the learning environment and beyond (courage, societal agency);
- Expand learners’ idea of transformative climate action by exposing them to new perspectives, practices, immersive art and different knowledge systems (innovation);
- Engage learners in project-based group activities aimed to grow and/or care for communities and regenerate ecosystems (perspective-taking, collaboration).
Tools in this competence area
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Tool 5.4. Mobilizing through art and dialogue
This tool is about communicating about climate change and climate resilience, as well as engaging with a diverse audience, in ways that feel exciting, fulfilling and enriching for all parties involved. Some activities mobilize the arts to make environmental issues and climate change tangible, as well as encourage creativity and connection (with each other and…
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Tool 5.3. Fostering solidarity and repair
Climate Change has been disproportionately affecting certain localities, regions, countries, population groups and communities already. This fosters a need for solidarity and repair that takes into account the various manifestations of climate impacts in different contexts and for different population groups. One aspect of re-imagining solidarity can be fueled by increasing our intergenerational understanding, and…
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Tool 5.2. Taking local action for climate-resilience
This tool introduces activities that can help actively build the climate resilience of the local community and local ecosystems now and in the long run. They contribute to re-building a community of support, and restoring the health of local ecosystems. Besides, this tool fosters agency by increasing the learner’s confidence that they themselves can make…
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Tool 5.1. Regenerating soils
Healthy ecosystems require healthy soils. The latter contribute to sequestering carbon, and absorbing water which limits risks of flooding and helps refill aquifers. Soil biodiversity also helps sustain the biodiversity of the ecosystems at large, and makes food more nutrient-rich which is essential to human physical and mental health. Besides, connecting with soil through activities…