The view from schools on UK climate change policy

Posted on 10 May 2022

New research into the attitudes of pupils and teachers towards the UK government's new sustainability and climate change strategy published.

Research into the attitudes of pupils and their teachers to environmental sustainability education by UYSEG's Dr Lynda Dunlop and UCL's Dr Elizabeth Rushton suggests that the UK government's new sustainability and climate change strategy does not align with what young people and teachers want to see in schools.

The research project, funded by the British Educational Research Association, involved workshops with over 200 teachers, teacher educators and young people aged 16-18 from the UK to understand how they wanted schools to tackle sustainability and climate change.

This article in The Conversation details the top 5 changes in schools that the project participants wanted to see, and how the new government policy is matching up: Five ways the new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools in England doesn't match up to what young people actually want (theconversation.com)