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Recycling+ – Helping Learners Understand Fast Fashion and How Clothing Choices Can Help Address the Climate Emergency
Journal of Emergent Science, Volume: 24, Pages: 14 - 22
Swansea University Authors:
Jennifer Rudd , Geraldine Lublin
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Abstract
The New Curriculum for Wales provides a unique opportunity to develop new units of work to deliver high quality climate change education. This paper describes a collaboration between academics from science, geography and modern languages disciplines, with classroom teachers at a Welsh primary school...
Published in: | Journal of Emergent Science |
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ISSN: | 2046-4754 |
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The Association for Science Education
2023
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URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62657 |
Abstract: |
The New Curriculum for Wales provides a unique opportunity to develop new units of work to deliver high quality climate change education. This paper describes a collaboration between academics from science, geography and modern languages disciplines, with classroom teachers at a Welsh primary school to develop a unit of work on clothing choices and the climate emergency.. The unit of work encouraged students to think about their clothing – where it came from, how it was looked after and where it went after disposal. Students learnt technical language such as “biodegradable” and “sustainable”, were encouraged to be creative by upcycling clothing and engaged in activism, writing letters to politicians about sustainable clothing. |
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Keywords: |
STEAM Education, primary curriculum, sustainability, climate change education, fast fashion |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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This research was funded by NERC through the discipline‐hopping grant, and UK AHRC through the
Impact Acceleration Account grant, both administered by Swansea University. |
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