Growing Climate Justice Education: A Framework for K-12 Teachers and School Communities

Kirstin Milks, Veronica Vesnaver, Tanya Flores, Brian Drayton, and Gillian M. Puttick
Milks, K., Vesnaver, V., Flores, T., Drayton, B., Puttick, G. (2024).Growing climate justice education: A framework for K-12 teachers and school communities. Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives, 11(1).

Introduction

Climate change affects all communities and its impacts are certain to worsen. However, the greatest impacts of climate change are predicted to fall on communities that, for a range of historical, political, social, and economic reasons, disproportionately lack resources, such as financial help for mitigation and equitable participation in decision-making (EPA, 2022). Consequently, strongly affected communities are often least able to prepare and respond. Thus, climate change science—both the impacts and the solutions—is both a matter of natural science and of social science.