Vad tänker elever och lärare i årskurs 3 om klimatförändringen?

• Main Authors: Waldenström, Hedvig, Bubnjevic, Valentina
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS) 2019
• Subjects: Climate change; teachers; students; grade three; oro; klimatförändringen; årskurs 3; lärare; elever; Biological Sciences; Biologiska vetenskaper
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-27515

The children who are included in this study are 9 years old and they go to schools in the south of Sweden. The data collection is based on interviews with 17 children and their teachers. The interviews have been analysed and the aim was to get an understanding of what students in third grade know about climate change and what they feel about this complex phenomenon. Our aim was also to get an understanding of what teachers of these students think about teaching about climate change in third grade.The result shows that the children have not discussed about climate change as a topic in school. They have studied environment and topics related to environment and contamination with litter.The result from the teacher interviews show, as with the interviewed children, that they do not discuss climate change as a topic. The teachers prefer to teach about environment and the causes of good/bad environment. All teachers in the study see climate change as a too complex phenomenon to discuss with children in third grade. The teachers say discussing climate change is a sensitive topic to discuss with children nine years of age because they do not want to worry them.