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Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom
- Auckland University of Technology
In this article, we reflect on our experiences of teaching sustainability in management education in an emergent context of increasing and pervasive eco-anxiety. Our collaborative autoethnographic enquiry stemmed from the ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Enabling students to face the environmental crisis and climate change with resilience: inclusive environmental and sustainability education approaches and strategies for coping with eco-anxiety
- University of Winnipeg (MB)
- Université de Saint-Boniface (MB)
As university educators, we should educate students to be able to address the challenges presented by the environmental crisis and climate change by being responsible eco-citizens, and creative, solution-oriented thinkers ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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‘Look to the young’- a study on climate change coping, emotion, and hope among emerging adults
- Uppsala University
Climate change is already happening, but the long-term effects will be noticed by today’s young and future generations. Today’s young people will need to be part of mitigating ...
- Posted March 10, 2022
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What Are We Even Doing Here? Empowering Students in the Face of Overlapping Crises
- University of Oregon (OR)
Teaching and mentoring Gen-Z students can often feel full of cognitive dissonance as we talk about career possibilities or the value of upcycling a t-shirt into a tote bag even ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Healing to Transform - A Trauma-Informed Approach to Education for Sustainable Development & Wellbeing
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Our society and our planet are desperate for healing from embodied trauma passed on from generation to generation—be it fueled by institutionalized racism, forced displacement, gender and economic inequality ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Student Healing in a Time of Climate Crisis
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Against a global backdrop of climate strikes in the Fall of 2019, students and youth everywhere are demanding an immediate shift toward climate change solutions and policies that address the ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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"Worry and Hope: What College Students Know, Think, Feel, and Do About Climate Change"
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
There is an urgent need for a comprehensive assessment of climate literacy across higher education institutions in the United States. In addition, there is a need for both research and ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Education, anthropocentrism, and interspecies sustainability: confronting institutional anxieties in omnicidal times
- University of Gothenburg
Deborah Britzman’s remarkable question, ‘What holds education back?’, appears more urgent than ever in a world of accelerating environmental crises, climate change, and what has been described as omnicide ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Worry and Hope: What College Students Know, Think, Feel, and Do about Climate Change
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
“Colleges and universities can only thrive if society and the biosphere are healthy. Any institution that is so shortsighted as to pursue its ends without taking into account the interests ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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The Emotional Experience of Sustainability Courses: Learned Eco-Anxiety, Potential Ontological Adjustment
- Concordia University (QC)
- Queen's University
- York University
The knowledge content of university-level introductory sustainability courses elicits emotional reactions by students that are novel within the typical classroom context. Common negative reactions include ‘sadness’, ‘worry’, ‘guilt’ and ‘disgust ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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How to run a sustainability science research group sustainably?
- University of Kassel
- University of Turku
- University of Hohenheim
Rigorous sustainability science includes addressing pressing real-world problems, weaving multiple knowledge systems, and striving for transformative change. However, these key attributes of sustainability science often conflict with university structures and ...
- Posted April 23, 2021
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Exhausted: Education and the Response to the Planetary Crisis
- University College London (London)
The climate crisis is of a severity that fills many with a sense of hopelessness. The modest steps that ordinary citizens can take to reduce energy consumption and waste seem ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Educators’ experiences and strategies for responding to ecological distress
- University of Cambridge
- University of Sydney (NSW)
Research is increasingly identifying the issues of ecological distress, eco-anxiety and climate grief. These painful experiences arise from heightened ecological knowledge and concern, which are commonly considered to be de ...
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Mindfulness for Alleviating Climate Anxiety
- Santa Fe College (FL)
- AASHE (MA)
During the pandemic, many of us working remotely have experienced zoom fatigue, isolation, body aches and general exhaustion. A great way to feel relaxed yet energized is through the practice ...
- Posted April 15, 2021
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Climate change is increasingly causes mental health problems among college students
- Tufts University (MA)
This is a literature review of peer-reviewed papers, news articles, and polls that illustrate the impacts of climate change on mental health among college students.
- Posted Oct. 23, 2020
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Confronting anxiety and despair in environmental studies and sciences: an analysis and guide for students and faculty
- Ursinus College (PA)
- Yale University (CT)
- Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative (WY)
In the field of environmental studies and sciences (ESS), teachers and students face a daily barrage of dire news and information from all manner of sources and all corners of ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Reflective Practices in Sustainability Education
- Saint Joseph's College - ME (ME)
The more we learn about the climate crisis and its far-reaching impacts, the harder they become to negotiate. Learners of all ages express anxiety and fear about circumstances beyond their ...
- Posted Dec. 12, 2019
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Climate Anxiety, Environmental Grief, and Pretraumatic Stress on Campus and in the College Classroom
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Emerging research in higher education shows that students carry an emotional response of fear, anger, frustration, and sadness. Campus environments and college personnel, including faculty, can learn strategies to acknowledge ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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