Online Course for Teachers on Climate Change, Batch 4 : CSE
Last date for submitting application 25th Aug 23
Date: September 4th – 30th / Duration Four weeks / Mode Online, self-paced / Load 3-4 hours per week / Platform Moodle & Zoom / Language English
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
Do you know that India witnessed an extreme weather event — landslides, cyclones, floods, etc. — almost every day from January to September 2022? July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded in the history of the planet as the Earth’s average temperature is on the rise. To make the matter worse, this temperature rise could soon be surpassed, owing to human-induced climate change. It’s more urgent now than ever for educators to bring the issue of climate change to the forefront, build our knowledge on it and empower our students for climate action.
Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Green Schools Programme (GSP) invites applications from interested school teachers (teaching classes V to XII) for joining the fourth batch of its free online course on climate change.
Exclusively designed for school teachers, the four-week course will:
- Add to and build up their understanding and knowledge of climate change, and its science, politics and impacts
- Offer them ideas, tools and methodologies for more effective classroom teaching of the subject of climate change
- Bolster their confidence to facilitate classroom discussions on the subject within their own local context
- Provide a platform for learning from the experiences of a cohort of teachers and other professionals in the field
Add to and build up their understanding and knowledge of climate change, and its science, politics and impacts Offer them ideas, tools and methodologies for more effective classroom teaching of the subject of climate change Bolster their confidence to facilitate classroom discussions on the subject within their own local context Provide a platform for learning from the experiences of a cohort of teachers and other professionals in the field
A CSE E-Certificate of Participation will be awarded to all participants who complete the course successfully.
Broad Course Layout
- Fundamentals of climate change
- Impacts of climate change
- Climate change negotiations
- Adaptation and mitigation
- Some contemporary issues – net zero, sinks, equity, carbon budgets
For further information, write to us at support@greenschoolsprogramme or tushita.rawat@cseindia.org
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