TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Kranz, Johanna
A1  - Schwichow, Martin
A1  - Breitenmoser, Petra
A1  - Niebert, Kai
ED  - Harms, Ute
ED  - Michel, Hanno
T1  - The (Un)political Perspective on Climate Change in Education — A Systematic Review
JF  - Sustainability
N2  - Mitigating and adapting to climate change requires foundational changes in societies, politics, and economies. Greater effectiveness has been attributed to actions in the public sphere than to the actions of individuals. However, little is known about how climate literacy programs address the political aspects of mitigation and adaptation. The aim of this systematic literature review is to fill this gap and analyze how public-sphere actions on mitigation and adaptation are discussed in climate literacy programs in schools. Based on database searches following PRISMA guidelines we identified 75 empirical studies that met our inclusion criteria. We found that central aspects of climate policy such as the 1.5-degree limit, the IPCC reports, or climate justice are rarely addressed. Whilst responsibility for emissions is attributed to the public sphere, the debate about mitigation usually focuses on the private sphere. Climate change education does not, therefore, correspond to the climate research discourse. We show that effective mitigation and adaptation are based on public-sphere actions and thus conclude that effective climate education should discuss those public actions if it is to be effective. Hence, we propose that climate education should incorporate political literacy to educate climate-literate citizens.
KW  - -
KW  - climate change education
KW  - climate literacy
KW  - climate change
KW  - sustainability education
KW  - political education
KW  - literature review
KW  - private and public-sphere action
KW  - mitigation
KW  - adaptation
KW  - climate justice
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:frei129-opus4-9676
SN  - 2071-1050
SS  - 2071-1050
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074194
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074194
VL  - 14
IS  - 7
PB  - MDPI
ER  -