Speaker
Sarah Wildbichler
Description
Anthropogenic climate change is shaping the world we live in. Therefore, fostering climate agency is an important goal of science education. To develop climate agency, learners should acquire competences necessary to make informed and effective decisions about climate-related actions. Carbon competence plays a critical role in this process. The contribution presents the development of a test instrument assessing students’ carbon competence associated with specific actions. These actions are situated in relation to the dimensions of individual vs. collective agency and everyday vs. strategic and political agency to represent central types of climate action.
| Education level | Age 15-18 (Secondary education) |
|---|---|
| Physics topic | Climate physics |
| Research focus | Evaluation & Assessment |
| Research method | Analytic Physics Education Research (Quantitative research) |
| Organizing preference criteria | Track |
Author
Co-authors
Giulia Tasquier
(University of Bologna)
Johanna Kranz
Stefan Gerbis
(Universität Innsbruck)
Thomas Schubatzky
