Climate Education Conference
The Climate Education Conference, to be held on May 24 and 25, 2010 at Stan Fulton Building, is open to academic faculty, education researchers, private/government officials, lecturers from teacher training colleges and universities with experience or interest in teaching climate change.
The conference objectives are to:
- Exchange, inspire and develop ‘Best Practices’ in climate change education
- Develop a database of climate education syllabi to identify a range of courses and topics being offered, at what institutions and programs and academic levels
- Develop a model for climate change education curriculum to be taught in schools
- Identify programs/institutions where funding in climate education will be best served according to the objectives of NSF EPSCoR program
- Facilitate cooperation, mentoring and networking between public, private sectors, university and community colleges in teaching climate change.
- Collect, qualify and help identify a repository for disseminating teaching materials, which will essentially be the website created for the purpose
Conference Themes
The focus of the conference will focus on the following themes:
- Presentations of few ‘state of the art’ examples (keynote sessions) of how climate change may be taught.
- Topics covered in inter-disciplinary teachings in climate change
- Methods in inter-disciplinary teaching in climate change
- Influence of scientific discussions on teaching climate change
- Teaching climate change policy
- Cooperation and networking between schools, private and federal organizations on teaching climate change
- Role of informal learning institutions in teaching climate change
Travel Grant
Limited amounts of funds from the conference has been set aside to help fund travel for participants or invited keynote speakers at the conference. The rationale is to support people that contribute to the conference and cannot attend otherwise due to budgetary constraints. The exact number of travel grants that can be made available will depend on the availability of funds and will be determined by the conference organizers as it becomes available.