Programma: PRIN
Responsabile scientifico per il dipartimento: Giulia Tasquier
Struttura principale: DIFA
Data inizio e data fine: dal 30/11/2023 al 30/11/2025
ENCOMPASS: educazione scientifica per il cambiamento climatico
Il progetto promuove l’agenzia dei giovani nella lotta al cambiamento climatico, integrando scienze, filosofia ed economia per rafforzare la cittadinanza attiva attraverso l’educazione scolastica.
ENCOMPASS: Science Education for Climate Action
The project fosters youth agency in climate action, integrating science, philosophy, and economics to strengthen active citizenship through school education.
Abstract
The project is positioned in the main strategic emerging topic Environment Quality, within Cluster 2 and Sub-Cluster 6, and is geared towards the ambitious and long-term goal to create a more resilient, cohesive, inclusive, open, and democratic society. ENCOMPASS aspires to contribute to creating, through school education, a society where the young generation can respond to the current social challenges and develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will support their participation and action in our complex society and times of uncertainty. ENCOMPASS starts from the fact that the young generations is showing in the last years an unprecedent willingness to contribute to climate change (CC) abatement. However, forms of radical activism are taking place, and show a lack of orientation among young people, who have trouble understanding how to become agents of change. Indeed, educating school science students, our future leaders, decision-makers, and citizens, about socio-ecological challenges now is a critical and delicate aspect. The improvement of science education in schools, despite being in the UNESCO agenda for over 60 years, is still underrealized. The educational systems, however, play a crucial role in fostering learners’ ability to construct coherent pictures of the complexity of the present, and empowering them to develop transformative agency Anthropocene. However, the point is how to foster learners’ ability to construct coherent pictures of the complexity of the present, which aligns with cultivating their improved scientific literacy and empowering them with the agency to be future-aware. The overarching goal of ENCOMPASS is to unpack the concept of agency in the context of CC action, including both individual action and political participation, and fully incorporate it in science education programs. Specifically, ENCOMPASS guesses to explore and unfold this research goal by combining cross-cutting knowledge, expertise, and methodologies from the lenses of philosophy, economics, and science education