The goal of this project was to report on the implementation of the climate education curriculum in Worcestershire secondary schools from the perspective of faculty. First, we documented the climate education and climate change policies of England. We then worked with Students Organising for Sustainability UK to develop a teacher interview and with Senior Lecturer Elena Lengthorn at the University of Worcester to create a teacher trainee survey. The interview and survey were each used to identify successes and barriers to the implementation of climate education, and together revealed opportunities for the improvement of climate education. Our most prominent findings are that teachers do not feel prepared to teach climate change topics and have difficulty finding time to teach them.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Knight, Ethan
• Powell, Caleb
• Mester, Noah
• Frandsen, Logan

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Environment
• Sustainability
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042822-050427
• 64906

Keyword

• Sustainability
• England
• Worcestershire
• Teachers
• Climate Change
• Education

Advisor

• Looft, Linda C.
• Looft, Fred J.

Year

• 2022

Center

• Worcester, England Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Students Organising for Sustainability UK
• University of Worcester

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 13 - Climate Action

Date created

• 2022-04-28

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2022-09-19