ERIC Number: EJ1470962
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-2096-5311
EISSN: EISSN-2632-1742
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Bringing the Politics of Climate Change down to Earth: Student Descriptions of Dwelling Place and "Geo-Graphies" as Alternative Belongings
Sophia Jeong1; Elena H. Silverman2
ECNU Review of Education, v8 n1 p161-183 2025
Purpose: This study draws on Bruno Latour's work, "Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime," to re-imagine issues of climate change in K-12 science teaching and learning. "Re-turning" to a dwelling place can become an investigation, while issues of gender, race, education, food, technology, and religion can be elicited in relation to climate change issues. This allows students to be able to map a political "geo-graphy" that would be meaningful and matter to them. Design/Approach/Methods: We apply Latour's concepts of dwelling place and geo-graphies in the teaching and learning of climate change in the secondary science classroom. Our Latourian inquiry questioned, "How do students' up-close and local-level descriptions of their dwelling place create geo-graphies that foster their understanding of the shared, inhabitable Earth and imagine an alternative way of belonging to the Earth?" Findings: By re-orienting students' thinking to be more inclusive about who has the capacity to act, we aim to make the issues of climate change local and relevant to students' everyday lives. Originality/Value: We respond to Latour's call to conceive of alternative ways of belonging to and inhabiting this world that are more ethical and responsible.
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Science Instruction, Geographic Location, Science Education, Secondary Education, Educational Philosophy, Neoliberalism, Justice, Secondary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1The Ohio State University; 2Indiana University