Adapted with permission from Roderick, T. (2023). Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education, (pp. 13–20). Harvard Education Press.
For the culminating project of their multidisciplinary course on climate justice, seniors at the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School in New York City (known as WHEELS) worked in groups of four to choose a climate justice issue and create a seven-minute video. One student, introducing his group’s video, said that the students had disagreed over which issue to focus on. One favored pollution; another, garbage and littering; and a third, drug addiction. “Through good listening and negotiation,” he stated proudly, “we were able to solve our conflict with a win-win-win agreement.” They decided to address all three — a decision that forced them to explore connections among these three major problems in the neighborhood.
Their neighborhood in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan is surrounded by highways that pollute the ..
- Saturday, November 23, 2024