Abstract
Children are central to the rhetoric supporting global climate agreements, yet they are also envisaged to play a strategic role in materialising such agreements. Along with other household actors, children are implicated in localised efforts to manage global resource sustainability. As learners in educational systems that are being redesigned to encompass messages of sustainability, children are moreover positioned as ‘agents of change’ through sustainability education. Drawing on theoretical work on children's agency and interdependence, this review calls for greater attention to the structural and relational dimensions of environmental knowledge transmission to inform sustainability education. This is presented as one move towards constructing what Middlemiss (2014) terms a more ‘socially sensitive’ model of sustainable development.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 72-83 |
| Journal | Children & Society |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Dec 2016 |
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Sustainable Consumption Institute
