Early Release Launch of New Cornell University, EE Capacity, and NAAEE Community Climate Change Education Resource Co-Edited by Marna Hauk

An Early Release Version of "Community Climate Change Education: A Mosaic of Approaches" is now available at naaee.org/mosaic

Edited by Marna Hauk and Elizabeth Pickett
Illustrated by Susan Chung

Authored by 20+ Community Climate Change Fellows

Supported by EE Capacity and NAAEE, with funding from the EPA

A New e-Book on Community Climate Change Education

Strategies and Convergence -
Vibrant Stories from the Front Lines of Community Strength,
Solidarity, Social Innovation, Youth Investment, Climate Justice,
Indigenous Organizing, and School Collaborations

Early Release Date: October 20, 2016 - Now Downloadable from naaee.org/mosaic

Featuring…

• 26 Reports from the Field

• Resources and Links on More than 15 Climate Change Education Topics:
Marine Science, Effective Climate Change Communication, Environmental
Justice, Carbon-Sequestering Community Food Systems, Youth Leadership,
School Projects, Neighborhood Eco-Organizing, Social Incubators for Gaian
Resilience, Ecotourism, Indigenous Resurgence, and More…

• Fifty+ Vignettes from the Front Lines – The Process of Effective
Community Climate Change Action: Alliance, Capacity, Networks, Mutual Learning,
Communities of Practice, Restoration, Possibility, Hope

• Original Research Report: Strategies and Resources for the Long Haul and
Preventing Burnout for Climate Change Educator-Organizers

• Original Facilitation Guide with Learning Practices: Facilitation Strategies for Surfacing Unheard Voices

Spectrum of Inclusive Resilience: Designing and Assessing Climate Justice Education

In 2014, I took a course on "Measuring Environmental Education Outcomes" with Marianne Krasny and Alex Kudryavtsev, through EE Capacity, NAAEE, and Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab. For this course, I developed a three-tiered spectrum instrument that faculty and teachers could use to assess the level of inclusion of climate justice considerations in their curriculum. The intention was this would support teachers in designing for deeper integration of climate justice education in their courses.

In October 2014 I developed a visualization for this instrument and presented it as one of the Community Climate Change Fellows of NAAEE in Ottawa, Canada. In the following year, I refined the instrument, inspired by my experiences teaching doctoral students climate change education and mentoring graduate students in environmental justice and just sustainabilities. In October of 2015, I revised the instrument and was selected to present it at the Research Symposium of the North American Association for Environmental Educators. Now available are a companion briefing about the instrument as well as an informational poster. I am still in the process of further refining and articulating this work for academic publication.

Figure 1. Snapshot, Spectrum of Inclusive Resilience Poster (Hauk, (c) 2015)

Title: Spectrum of Inclusive Resilience: Designing and Assessing Climate Justice Education 

Abstract: Developed by meta-synthesis and refined by multi-case application, this research offers a three-tier spectrum to assess and design for depth of implementation of transformative climate justice approaches in curricula and projects, to avoid greenwashing and move more deeply towards social transformation, community-based action, inclusion, and resilience in environmental education.

Marna Hauk, Ph.D. – NAAEE – Research Symposium – October, 2015 in San Diego, California

Here's the handout I shared with visitors during the discussion.
Here's the poster I developed to share this instrument - more refined than the 2014 one, and still in formation.

Hope you find it of interest, and please let me know what you see missing or would suggest augmenting or changing. I have subsequently encountered the work of the Hackman Consulting Group on designing climate justice education, whose insights I hope to include in the next iteration of this spectrum model.

Thank you.