Teaching History in an Age of Climate Crisis
Thursday 26 October
Teaching History in an Age of Climate Crisis with Michael Riley (UCL Institute of Education and former Director of Schools History Project) – this will talk place via MS Teams
The importance of teaching young people about our planetary crisis is hard to overstate. This is the defining existential challenge of our time and helping students to understand how we reached this point has relevance of the way we navigate our way out of it. In this SIG, Michael Riley will draw on his work for UCL’s new Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, considering the potential of history to contribute to young people’s understanding of the planetary crisis and to explore what history teachers can do to adapt their teaching to address their greatest challenge of our times.
(History Festival 2023 has been supported by the Institute of Policy and Engagement, the Department of History and the School of Humanities)