A Reason for Hope

Situating Arts Education within Eco-Justice Approaches to Climate Literacy

Betsy Maloney Leaf

University of Minnesota

Heather Delisle

Colleen Redmond

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v3i1.6538

Keywords: climate literacy, arts education, student mental health


Abstract

Student mental health concerns in a post-Covid world have drawn attention in the field of educational research. The following article theorizes an experience of implementing a professional development workshop in April 2024 to support high school educators as they guide young people toward climate literacy and connect it to student mental health. Feedback from the workshop confirmed that many participants had not intentionally explored the curricular possibilities of addressing climate studies in their classrooms, many were ready to build tangible next steps to cultivating climate literacy in their classrooms.