Dear Shahnaz Karami

First of all let me say thank you very much for your important question. Really, there is much things have to be done in our universities to reduce climate changes also many questions, answers and interactions have been presented here in RG platform related to this topic, so please visit the following link for more clarifications.

Regards, Emad

https://www.researchgate.net/project/New-World

It is a highly debated & discussed topic and hence including this type of topics at the HE level will only confuse the young minds. Otherwise, like Dr. Kenneth has suggested, the syllabus should be well balanced, without creating any conflict or confusion. But how to set the balanced syllabus and who will decide that it is un-biased and balanced, when each one of us are biased in our own way ?!! 

Education is an essential element of the global response to climate change. It helps young people understand and address the impact of global warming and climate change.

I think she flash valid point. Without being in curriculum only these confusions are created  because very few people known it correctly without any working knowledge. Higher education open vista for research and analysis by young minds. Many universities have this a subject and even degree on climate change.

There are some studies that address issues relative to this question....e.g.,

Cordero, Eugene C., Anne Marie Todd, and Diana Abellera. "Climate change education and the ecological footprint." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89, no. 6 (2008): 865-872.

Bangay, Colin, and Nicole Blum. "Education responses to climate change and quality: Two parts of the same agenda?." International Journal of Educational Development 30, no. 4 (2010): 359-368.

Sibbel, Anne. "Pathways towards sustainability through higher education." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 10, no. 1 (2009): 68-82.

Abdul-Wahab, Sabah A., Mahmood Y. Abdulraheem, and Melanie Hutchinson. "The need for inclusion of environmental education in undergraduate engineering curricula." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 4, no. 2 (2003): 126-137.

Rebich, Stacy, and Catherine Gautier. "Concept mapping to reveal prior knowledge and conceptual change in a mock summit course on global climate change." Journal of geoscience education 53, no. 4 (2005): 355-365.

Everybody should be involved in environmental education. Then only it is possible the expected change in the climet. Involve everybody as per the personal ability to react fir the problem. Government should make some films based on environment or they should restrict the films to include 20% part based on the environmental education.

Not so new maybe. RS & GIS could be considered as core curriculum in a course on climate change as is argued in the first attachment. A way to design a client-customised curriculum (although on a different subject matter) is reported in the second.

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Article Global and environmental monitoring: the challenge to educators

Conference Paper Training and Education for Land Information Management

It is necessary not only to acquaint with the facts of human activity harmful for the environment, but also to give explanations.

For example, nuclear explosions and tests of chemical or bacterial weapons.

It is important to show that there is a difference between researchers possessing scientific knowledge and culture in the destruction of harmful substances and thoughtless instillation of harmful products.

To explain not so much how harmful it is to open nuclear stations, but how harmful it is to close them badly. Do not save on the health of the planet.

Dear Shahnaz,

Thanks for your question. Recently,there is a dramatic change in climate and hope it continues. To create awareness about climate changes and its impact, we have to incorporate these wisely in our curriculum.

thank you very much for answer  my question.

Welcome and thanks Shahnaz.

I would suggest two dimensions to study climate change. First, how climate change is a global issue and how can we deal with it together. And the second issue is the local context of climate change. Locally people may not consider climate change as a big challenge when they struggle with many local everyday problems such as water scarcity, insufficient sanitation and huge  environmental pollution. There are millions are passing their days in precarious settlements. If these are the situations, when there is time to think about climate change and its local impacts. Therefore, my suggestion is to think it in two aspects or dimensions, local as well as global.

Dear all,

According to your opinion, the glocal curriculum is good for HE in climate change subject  oky????

Ys,it is very good idea but to frame such vast topic in a syllabus by using tools of different disciplines is a very challenging task, we need to do competency mapping of aspiring students also.,,. emphasis Should be on research and extension

yes of course .