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28 November 2017

Teachers Perceptions on Climate Change:
In this study for this article, the primary school teachers perceive climate change as a major threat. Most agree that climate change is an issue of global concern. In a survey to test primary teachers’ level of climate change awareness, in this sample, they collectively scored in the medium range meaning they are relatively aware of climate change. They expressed a general awareness of the causes, effects, and mitigations of climate change. They also expressed limited understanding of the role of fossil fuels, poor management of waste inclimate change, and the likely impact of climate change on sea level, lakes, and rivers. There were results that these teachers’ existing gap is in understanding of the anthropogenic nature of the current climate change as they fail to conform to the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming. There was also a lack of awareness on the important climate change institutions and instruments among teachers in Kisumu Municipality.
Conclusion from the Article:
“Based on the findings of this study, the conclusion drawn was that the level of climate change awareness among primary school teachers in Kisumu Municipality is not significantly low but there are significant gaps in their knowledge which needs to be addressed. Teachers’ perception of climate change as a threat shows that they would be willing to support any policy geared towards adaptation and mitigation of climate change including educating pupils on climate change and related issues. Climate change is, however, a relatively new and complex subject usually surrounded with a lot of misinformation. For this reason, awareness creation is unavoidable in the fight against climate change. This, therefore, necessitates the need for a national climate change awareness policy that focuses on teachers as key stakeholders in the education sector.”
This article also talked about how teachers are more polarized on the causes of global warming, but encouragingly, suggests that these beliefs do not transfer to students. It talks about disagreement being rooted in political ideology and worldviews. Like the first article, it also talked about teachers not believing in anthropogenic causes.


Winters for an Elder versus winters for me:

The elder I talked to honestly wanted to say that winters are milder now; however, they decided they couldn’t. They can remember times then and now when they got super warm winter weather and times when there was record breaking snow. So, we came to the conclusion that there really wasn’t much difference.

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