Arts, nature and wellbeing: Journeying towards sustainability for children and young people - Prof Nicola Walshe

Arts, nature and wellbeing: Journeying towards sustainability for children and young people - Prof Nicola Walshe
Drawing on twenty years of work within environmental and sustainability education - from research undertaken as a newly qualified geography teacher, through to projects overseen as Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education – Nicola will explore approaches to teaching about climate change and environmental sustainability within schools. She will illustrate children and young people’s conceptualisations of sustainability, highlighting the importance of supporting them beyond simply understanding the science of climate change to developing knowledge and values to help them adapt to a changing and challenging world. Finally, Nicola will propose, based on her seminal Eco-Capabilities project, that arts-in-nature practice has the potential to provide children and young people with multi-sensory stimuli to connect with nature, understand environmental sustainability, and support mental health and wellbeing.
Teresa Baker
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6/2/2023
01:06:49
IOE, Institute of Education, Professorial Lecture, Climate Change, Geography Education
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