Climate Change in the High School Physics Classroom
Date/Time
4/27/2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
Event Description
Climate Change in the High School Physics Classroom Talk Series: Talk #3:
Sat. April 27 at 8am PDT/Arizona time (11am EDT)
Presenter: Ms. Vandana Singh, Professor of Physics and Environment, Framingham State University
Talk Title: Beyond the Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Social Justice
Free; public invited. Via Zoom.
Register at this URL: bit.ly/polstclimate
(Or at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZADeBVRoB42y6IRen8Vn-_ZTl_EAj1OUYxCl3FGNzowTW5w/viewform )
All are invited to contribute by asking questions or sharing their ideas. Also, a follow-up 'Coffee Hour' will be on THURSDAY, MAY 2, at 3pm PDT/AZ time (6pm EDT) via Zoom. Vandana will be there, to go deeper.
Summary: Climate change is part of a complex of global social-environmental problems that pose an existential threat to humanity and the biosphere. Unfortunately, we also live in an age of massive greenwashing, without good evaluative frameworks for so-called solutions. It is imperative that our students are able to think critically and ethically about climate change and climate solutions so that they can be inspired to take wise action.
Yet, scholars agree, broadly speaking, that mainstream education has failed us. An important reason for this is that the climate problem transcends conventional educational frameworks. It is a richly complex problem that spans large scales of space and time, it is inherently interdisciplinary and it is centrally concerned with issues of justice and equity. How to embrace these essential aspects despite our siloed education system? I'll describe development of a justice-centered transdisciplinary pedagogy of climate change in the context of a general physics classroom in which stories serve as jump-off points for explorations at the intersection of science, society and justice.
Bio: Vandana Singh is a theoretical particle physicist by training and a professor of physics and environment at Framingham State University. For the past fifteen years she has been working on a re-visioning of the climate crisis at the nexus of science, society and meaningful action, and has developed an always-in-progress transdisciplinary, justice-centered climate pedagogy for her general physics classes that has wide applicability across disciplines.
Sat. April 27 at 8am PDT/Arizona time (11am EDT)
Presenter: Ms. Vandana Singh, Professor of Physics and Environment, Framingham State University
Talk Title: Beyond the Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Social Justice
Free; public invited. Via Zoom.
Register at this URL: bit.ly/polstclimate
(Or at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZADeBVRoB42y6IRen8Vn-_ZTl_EAj1OUYxCl3FGNzowTW5w/viewform )
All are invited to contribute by asking questions or sharing their ideas. Also, a follow-up 'Coffee Hour' will be on THURSDAY, MAY 2, at 3pm PDT/AZ time (6pm EDT) via Zoom. Vandana will be there, to go deeper.
Summary: Climate change is part of a complex of global social-environmental problems that pose an existential threat to humanity and the biosphere. Unfortunately, we also live in an age of massive greenwashing, without good evaluative frameworks for so-called solutions. It is imperative that our students are able to think critically and ethically about climate change and climate solutions so that they can be inspired to take wise action.
Yet, scholars agree, broadly speaking, that mainstream education has failed us. An important reason for this is that the climate problem transcends conventional educational frameworks. It is a richly complex problem that spans large scales of space and time, it is inherently interdisciplinary and it is centrally concerned with issues of justice and equity. How to embrace these essential aspects despite our siloed education system? I'll describe development of a justice-centered transdisciplinary pedagogy of climate change in the context of a general physics classroom in which stories serve as jump-off points for explorations at the intersection of science, society and justice.
Bio: Vandana Singh is a theoretical particle physicist by training and a professor of physics and environment at Framingham State University. For the past fifteen years she has been working on a re-visioning of the climate crisis at the nexus of science, society and meaningful action, and has developed an always-in-progress transdisciplinary, justice-centered climate pedagogy for her general physics classes that has wide applicability across disciplines.
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