Acknowledgements
This free course has been designed by a team of educators who have expertise in online education: Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman, Dr Kathy Chandler, Dr Simon Ball, Dr Irina Rets, Dr Carmel Kent, Dr Maria Aristeidou, Dr Koula Charitonos.
Contributors
Many people kindly agreed to participate in the audio and video recordings especially produced for the course Teacher development: Addressing the climate emergency. We warmly thank them for their generosity in giving their time. Those whose contributions appear within this free course, Supporting climate action through digital education, include the following:
Simon Behrman, Associate Professor at Warwick University
Sally Hayns, Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)
Desiree Lesatele, Student, National University of Samoa
Doreen Osborne, Climate Café Founder, Glasgow
Mary Troup, Climate Café Founder, Glasgow
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Images
Figure 1: Annie Spratt/unsplash
Figure 2/3/4: UNESCO (2017) adapted from Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives. Paris: UNESCO. Available at: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000247444
Figure 5: adapted from Figure 8.1 ‘Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health’ in Ebi, Hess and Watkiss (2017) Health Risks and Costs of Climate Variability and Change. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525226/
Figure 6: courtesy: Artists Literacies Institute, artistsliteracies.org Turn It Around, https://turnitaroundcards.org/
Figure 7: still image from 'Small Solutions for Big Problems', an animation by University of Cambridge (hosted on their public engagement YT channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZiXsjoi5Es Creative Encounters/University of Cambridge
Figure 8: Sujan Sarkar/Climate Visuals https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
Figure 9: Ryan Brown/UN Women https://climatevisuals.org/asset/1150
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Figure 11: Mika Baumeister/unsplash
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