Education And Climate Change. An Approach From Eso

Abstract

Acceptance of Climate Change (CC) implies the recognition of its anthropogenic origin and therefore the responsibility of current societies to mitigate and reduce it. This position has an ideological substrate that connects with political approaches that defend that the education system is the most appropriate institution for the Climate Literacy (CA) of the new generations. In this article we analyze the situation of CA in the Obligatory Secondary Education (ESO) stage in Spain from the perspective of administrators and teachers. It is an exploratory research based on qualitative methodology carried out in the Autonomous Communities of Madrid and Extremadura. The results show minimal differences between both Autonomous Communities regarding the treatment of climate change in their respective school curricula despite the ideological differences of their governments.