Instilling Ecological and Emotional Literacy to Engage Youth in Climate Action

The proposed project aims to develop an illustrated children’s book to educate youth on the importance of climate action, which has become increasingly importance due to the consequences of anthropogenic climate change. This project aims to develop a book that instills ecological and emotional literacy in order to empower youth to take action against climate change by integrating empathy, compassion, and care into their ecological perspectives. This project will include work with youth to help inform how children’s can be best utilized to educate them, as well as the utilization of previous research from The Arctic University of Norway’s ECO_CARE project on how empathy, compassion, and care can be instilled within individuals to be agents of change. This project will benefit both McMaster University and The Arctic University of Norway by exploring how to best educate youth, and therefore aid in developing comprehensive curricula within these institutions. The proposed project would contribute to a generation that takes effective climate action and guides their lives and choices through empathy, and make the institutions global leaders in taking climate action.

Faculty Supervisor:

Deborah DiLiberto

Student:

Partner:

Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

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