Summary of an article in "The Guardian"

US teachers offered support for climate change lessons

Hi all. Indeed, I didn’t know this newspaper, but while I was reading the columns about educational articles, I found more than one article that called my interest, but the one that motivated me most was this: "U.S. teachers offered support for climate change lessons".

The selected item underlying the importance of training teachers to teach their students about climate change and global warming. It is noted that a statistical study showed that 25% of people in an educational community doubted the existence of climate change.

Currently teachers talk very little about climate change in U.S. schools, and even some teachers have been attacked by teaching classes on global warming. The article notes that there is resistance on the part of many people to take the impacts of global warming and take action, creating an attitude of denial that can be harmful to future generations.

Pedagogical, social and political visions facing this dilemma remain crossed and in the face of the imminent denial of a large number of Citizens Traveling, director of NCSE (The National Centre for Science Education), Eugenie Scott, says that he fears for the coming generations, as if teachers refuse to learn and teach about climate change, future generations will be harmed by ignorance and the lack of preventive measures of this generation.

In conclusion, personally, I think that teachers   and general education must be adapted to social changes and contingencies as striking as it is climate change. The school should not be breeding an educational model that maintains the "status quo" and defends the interests of some sectors of production. The school must be a mechanism of transformation and improvement of society.

Find the article in this link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/13/teachers-support-climate-change-lessons