How Can Educators Encourage Positive Activism and Critical Thinking in Students?

The School Strike for Climate movement highlights just how significant youth leadership can be in driving forward the sustainability agenda. How can we, as educators, encourage positive activism and critical thinking in our pupils? This live Q&A session brings teachers and lecturers together with prominent teenage activists from across the world to ask questions, understand the power of youth agency and learn how to create more opportunities for grassroots change-making.

Brought to you by The New York Times Climate Hub. For more information, visit: nytclimatehub.com.

Speakers:
Sophia Kianni, Founder and Executive Director, Climate Cardinals
Hannah Testa, Founder, Hannah4Change
Anish Subramaniam, Pupil, Robert Gordon’s College
Charlotte Muller-Stuart, Climate Activist and Member, Generation Climate Initiative
Peter Higgins, Professor of Outdoor, Environ­mental and Sustain­ability Education, University of Edinburgh