“CAP will help attendees to address the climate crisis in their classrooms while also providing them with a roadmap for using pedagogy for positive change in our increasingly volatile era are all sorts of things that you are expected to do by magic as a graduate student, and that can lead to feeling very unsure about your position.“
Karen Costa, Author, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty Development Professional
OneHE and climate pedagogy expert Karen Costa are teaming up to help educators make a difference on climate action by changing their courses, one resource at a time. It’s an initiative founded on the view that “small is all” and that each of us can make small steps that together will result in the global change that needs to happen.
We all have our fields of influence and, as educators, we are in the privileged position of informing the thinking, values, and behaviours of generations of students. So what more lasting contribution can we have than to help embed the principles of climate action in everyone’s lives? But how to get started?
To support time-poor educators achieve this task, Karen Costa has worked with OneHE to develop two opportunities for colleagues to explore Climate Action Pedagogy (CAP). And in each, there’s a tangible outcome – you’ll come away with a redesigned learning artifact that will embed climate action in your course.
In this video, Karen Costa introduces her CAP course and co-working session on OneHE.
One way to engage is to complete Karen’s new course on CAP, which is coming soon to the OneHE platform. As with all OneHE courses, it’s filled with useful principles, practical activities, the evidence base, and expert insights. The course will take roughly 20 minutes to complete and can be accessed when and where educators want, with community support in the discussion boards.
Another way is for educators to join Karen for a free-to-all live 90-minute co-working webinar that takes place on 5 June. This will be a relaxed session in which to learn about CAP and bounce off others. Educators can stay in the main room, or there will be optional breakout rooms for working with colleagues. Or they can just turn up, tune in, and learn how to get started with CAP when they have time.
Karen and everyone at OneHE are excited to have this opportunity to engage with educators in a new way on a matter of overwhelming importance, where every individual action really does count. You can register for the live co-working session now, and stay tuned for the CAP course, coming later this month.
The CAP Live Co-Working session will take place on 5th June 2023 at 9:00-10:30 (PT), 10:00-11:30 (MT), 11:00-12:30 (CT), 12:00-1:30 (ET), 17:00-18:30 (BST), 19:00-20:30 (EEST).