Summer school: Working with Emotions in Climate Change Education

Climate change and other environmental problems bring new and important challenges to education, which have not yet received sufficient attention.

• How should we address emotions in topics where an emotional response is not only frequent but, in many ways, necessary?
• Can we overlook negative emotions in the educational process?
• How can we integrate deeper emotional work into current or future education?
• What do educators need to support effective climate education?

These are all questions we aim to explore at our Working with Emotions in Climate Change Education Summer School. If you are interested in environmental and climate education and their emotional dimensions, our summer school is just for you!

We invite guests from various countries to share their expertise. One of them is Marie Ojala, professor in socio-ecological resilience at the University of Oulu and associate professor (docent) in psychology at Örebro University. She is a leading global expert on how young people think, feel, act, learn, and communicate about global environmental issues, especially climate change. At the summer school, she will talk about hope in climate change education.