Overview
How successful have campaigns to remediate low levels of the public’s scientific literacy been, and what more should be done to scale up such efforts in relation to climate change science specifically? What forces have constrained the ability of the secondary and higher education systems to make climate change a greater priority, and how might they be overcome? Should universities put greater emphasis on inter-disciplinary, problem-oriented science driven by outcomes on issues like climate change mitigation? Have formal educational channels been underused as conduits for disseminating climate change science? What is the role of informal education settings, such as museums and public libraries? Project Participants are addressing these and other issues to help generate strategies designed to improve public literacy of climate change science through formal and informal channels.
Participants
Sally Blomstrum
Donovan Burton
Marian Chertow
Christiane Citron
Kevin Coyle
Catherine Cunningham
Leo Elshof
Baruch Fischhoff
Charles Floyd
Ellen Futter
David Grant
Jenny Harvey
Thea Weiss Hayes
Karin Jakubowski
Albin Jubitz
Marty Krasney
Doug Lowthian
Arthur Lupia
Stephen Nodvin
Frank Niepold
Brigitte Perreault
Richard Somerville
Frederick Stoss
Dan Sweeney
Mitchell Thomashow
Allen Tilley
Timothy Weiskel
Actions
- Improve K-12 students’ understanding of climate change
- Organize a grassroots educational campaign
- Incorporate climate change content into instructional technologies devices and software products
- Create competitions or harness existing ones introducing climate change as a topic
- Create educational TV shows
News & Events
- Debating Science - The Center for Ethics at the University of Montana is trying to get the word out as widely as possible to recruit graduate students for their NSF Ethics Education program, Debating Science. Part of this program deals with global climate change. If you could take some time to forward this information to students, colleagues and other departments to make students aware of this opportunity it would be much appreciated.For more information, click here if you are a student, or here if you are a professor.There is also a great deal of information at our Web site: www.umt.edu/ethicsMany Thanks,
Dane Scott, Director
THE CENTER FOR ETHICSAAAS Project 2061 is developing a new Atlas of Science Literacy map on weather and climate. Frank Niepold, project participant and Climate Education Fellow at NOAA is assiting AAAS in this process and would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions for the new language/edits to the selected benchmarks. This new map will be in the second volume, please click on this link to take a look. If you would like to be involved in this process, please email Frank Niepold asap at: frank.niepold@noaa.gov
3 comments
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:59 am
David Munk
Good Morning - I am curious as to the status of this project. I work with Resource Action Programs, which has been providing school delivered education programs where students bring kits of CFL’s and water saving devices to more than 100,000 homes per year. I’m interested in the education and the overall awareness (was that labeled Civics?) sections if they are active.
Thanks very much!
Dave Munk
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Dahvi Wilson
Dear Mr. Munk,
Your work sounds fascinating. We would love to include you as a participant in the project. However, we will need a bit more information to include you in the YPCC Web community. We hope you will not mind returning to the webpage: http://environment.yale.edu/climate/join/ and completing all fields in the form. This will allow us to process your request to participate.
Thank you very much,
The YPCC Management Team
April 6th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Richard Jordan
Education is one of 5 or 6 cross-cutting issues for the roundtables in the 60th UN DPI/NGO Conference on Climate Change, 5-7 Sept. 2007 that I am chairing — we of course will be looking at the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
That is a very strong group in the US — you might find their work of benefit.
Richard Jordan