Abstract
Abstract This research explored the characteristics of students’ activities and their artifacts during their participation in climate change club projects and investigated the impacts of the club project participation on students’ ecological citizenship. Climate change club projects were developed to help students understand climate change, investigate climate change issues, and plan and participate in social actions. Participants developed scientific models of causes of climate change and were expected to develop the own perspectives about socio-scientific issues related to climate change. Five types of competences of ecological citizenship were targeted through club activities: knowledge and understanding, responsibility, justice, sustainability, and participation. Researchers found activities were student centered and interactive and artifacts generated by students were resources for social action. Climate change club activities demonstrated the potential for student participation in club projects to promote competence for mitigating climate change among future generations by fostering a new form of citizenship: ecological citizenship.
Highlights
Since the Industrial Revolution, humankind has made remarkable progress that cannot compare to any other time in history
This study proposes club activities as a means to overcome limitations in the implementation of high school curricula and education programs on climate change
This study aimed at defining what qualities were required for high school students to become ecological citizens, especially considering that high school students were required to participate in project activities in a climate change club, with the final purpose of these activities being the cultivation of ecological citizenship
Summary
Since the Industrial Revolution, humankind has made remarkable progress that cannot compare to any other time in history. The process of modernization toward a “rich society” has resulted in a “risk society” in which unintended side effects threaten the very survival of industrial society (Hong, 2016). This has resulted in climate change, which poses a very fatal risk to all mankind. It is clear that humans are affecting the climate system, is the increase deepening, but this worsening impact is being continuously observed across the continents and oceans of Earth. If man-made greenhouse gas emissions continue to disrupt the climate, the planet will face the risk of serious and widespread irreversible impacts (IPCC, 2014)
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