Teacher education plays a crucial role in preparing future educators to understand and address the complex dimensions of climate change and climate justice across diverse contexts. Teachers hold a unique and powerful position as key agents of change, nurturing the next generation’s understanding, values, and actions.
Are you a teacher educator or early childhood educator in Finland or Indonesia? Join the “Integrating Climate Change Education and Climate Justice into teacher education program” workshop on 19 August 2025 at 9-12 Finland time (13-16 Indonesia time).
The workshop is a part of the DigiSus seed funded project “Arts-based climate change education through digitalization (DIGI-CLIMART)”.
Aim of the workshop
This workshop represents a step forward in collectively exploring how Climate Change Education and climate justice—both conceptually and pedagogically—can be meaningfully integrated into teacher education programs and curricula. The workshop aims to go beyond by focusing on decolonizing and empathic pedagogical, interdisciplinary, arts-based and creative, dialogical ways to include climate justice and climate change into curriculum.
Participants will engage in discussions to share experiences, perspectives, challenges, and opportunities, while also reflecting on the importance of fostering critical thinking and a sense of global responsibility in future teachers.
Participants
To address climate change from a holistic perspective, this workshop offers a shared space for teacher educators and early childhood educators from Finland and universities in the Global South particularly from Indonesia to come together, exchange experiences, reflect on good practices, and explore various perspectives of approaching climate change and climate justice in the teacher education program.
Through mutual dialogue and exchanges, we aim to learn from one another, connect across contexts, and imagine new possibilities for climate education rooted in knowing who we are as educators, how we care, and how we act.
Activities
In this participatory workshop, we’ll begin with presentations on climate change education and climate justice, sharing results from previous projects, having guest speakers, and engaging in group discussions and activities.
This workshop is organized under the DigiSus research platform at Tampere University, which has provided funding for the event. The workshop activities and outcomes will be used solely for the organizers’ internal reflection and reporting purposes.
Workshop details
- Date and time: Tuesday, 19.8.2025 at 9:00-12:00 Finland time (13:00-16:00 Indonesia time)
- Place: Online, the zoom link will be distributed among registered participants before the event
- Language: English
- Registration: by 15.08.2025 at 16:00 Finland (20:00 Indonesia time) > REGISTRATION FORM
Organizers
Golaleh Makrooni, Ph.D., Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University
Vilhelmiina Vainikka, Ph.D., Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University