Climate education is to reach the core curriculum. The idea is simple: if the young generation does not know what problem it is measured with, then the next generations will have a serious problem. With everything.
The secret weapon of the Ministry of National Education in this eco-revolution is to be experts who found themselves in the team for climate education, including scientists, activists, teachers and representatives of non-governmental organizations.
– This is not an abstract issue, the issue of protection of polar teddy bears, all this climate protection, but something that is to increase our quality of life – notes Marcin Popkiewicz, scientific journalist, science popularizer.
About the fact that the world is changing, children hear mainly from television
The climate crisis is already here. More frequent, longer and stronger fires, floods, drought or hurricanes are information that flows almost every day from the world of Poland.
Unfortunately, about the fact that the world is changing, children can hear mainly from television.
– As parents, we have experience that this climate education is not in schools. It has not been so far. These topics were treated more carelessly – indicates Kamila Kadzidłowska from the “Parents for the Climate” Foundation.
This is what to change. – This change, which is associated with the climate trend, will define our lives for the next decades, if not hundreds of years – says Joanna Mucha, deputy minister of national education from Poland 2050.
It will not be a separate item. “We need an alliance of sciences”
Climate education is not to be a new, separate subject, and is to appear in all possible lessons.
– We need an alliance of sciences. Alliance of natural, humanities, social and all. We represent various disciplines here – indicates prof. Piotr Skubała, ecologist, environmental ethytic from the University of Silesia in Katowice.
Content on climate insulation is to be part of a lesson in physics, chemistry, geography, WOS or history, so that students not only know the basic facts, but also can catch a very common disinformation in social media.
“We live in a world where anomaly has become something normal”Magda Łucyan/Fakty TVN
– We are not resolved from disinformation and Greenwashing (marketing, which misleads, presenting the product as ecological – editor's note). How much it affects public health, and how much we lose the chance to prevent these climate change – says Kamila Kadzidłowska.
Renewable energy will create a lot of jobs
New content in the new core curriculum is also to open new professional perspectives to children.
– That our kids and young people could have a chance in the New Labor Market, this green labor market – indicates Dr. Małgorzata Snarska -Nenańska from the “Code for Green” Foundation.
Already today all calculations say that it is renewable energy that will create much more jobs than mining. It will be similar in other industries, which has long been successful in the Krakow CLIMATE Education Center.
– It is important for them that they are aware of what can happen in 20 years, if we do not actually take care of this problem – emphasizes Klaudia Jakubek from the Krakow CLIMATION Education Center at the City of Krakow.
The world is changing and this is a fact. The question is whether we will take advantage of the opportunity to keep up with the changes.
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