📢📢Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) supports integrated climate education!
"The Society is looking ahead to the government’s curriculum and assessment review and the opportunity this provides to embed climate change in the geography curriculum at Key Stage 3 … ensuring that all students are introduced to robust climate change knowledge alongside humanity’s potential for collaborative action in challenging times.”
This year's GCSE results demonstrate young people's understanding of the threats that climate change poses and their determination to improve the future by solving them. Since 2019, the number of students entering for GCSE geography exams has increased by 12%, with a sustained growth in entrants each year. The youth generation is doing all they can to prepare themselves for climate change and to tackle it in the workforce, but the education system isn't supporting them the way it should. While geography is a great choice for those wanting to study climate change, currently no subject contains enough content on, or gives the freedom to explore, the solutions to the climate and ecological crisis.
Our education system should providing young people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to tackle climate change - we hope the curriculum and assessment review brings about this much needed change.
https://lnkd.in/e3mSF6R8