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Forwarded from the University of Minnesota:
GLOS X0083 - Schools for the Planet: Toward Universal Climate Literacy with Children’s Literature and Media
GREAT NEWS! We are now able to offer this institute in person and free!
When: in person UMN Twin Cities Campus from 9:00 am-1 pm on the following days followed by lunch break and independent work in afternoon. Independent work can be done remotely off campus.
June 14,2022 Tuesday
June 16, 2022 Thursday
June 20, 2022 Monday
June 22, 2022 Wednesday
Cost: NOW FREE (includes free parking at the UMN Twin Cities campus)
32 CEUs
Registration deadline: June 7, 2022 or untill full
We are a climate illiterate civilization that has sleepwalked into climate breakdown, biodiversity crash, and unprecedented social inequalities that exacerbate planetary ecocide. To turn this around, we need to transform our wealth-based, extractive civilization into a sustainable and equitable ecological civilization. This transition requires that we build universal climate literacy. It makes our classrooms ground zero for this effort.
In this intensive four-day summer school, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development literacy educator Dr. Marek Oziewicz (Professor, Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fellow, Institute on the Environment)and Nick Kleese (Lecturer, Department of Writing Studies, UMN) will guide you to engage with pedagogical practices of envisioning, embodying, and enacting climate literacy education in your classroom. You will learn why traditional climate change education (CCE), focused on scientific and environmental facts, is inadequate to address the social, racial, and political dimensions of climate change. You will explore climate literacy as a broader competence that includes climate science but focuses primarily on developing attitudes and values aligned with how we should live to respect our planetary home. You will learn why stories for young people—in books, films, games, and other narrative media—are the best technology for the social transformation that ensures everyone’s future: a technology that makes climate literacy accessible to every student everywhere.
Summer 2022
Professional Development for Educators
As a National Resource Center, the Institute for Global Studies provides professional development opportunities for K-16 teachers on global and international topics. We are dedicated to the teaching of international studies and increasing global literacy in students.
For other opportunites and resources for educators, explore the National Resource Centers' shared website Teaching the World .
Community College Educators, check out Curriculum Internationalization Resources for Community Colleges
Questions? Email outreach@ umn.edu
Or find more information at
https://cla.umn.edu/global-studies/outreach-engagement
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