Considering the role of behaviors in sustainability and climate change education
Efrat Eilam · 2025
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Efrat Eilam questions a central habit of climate teaching in a paper published in 2024. Sustainability and climate education often set student behavior change as an explicit goal, and Eilam argues that this aim deserves scrutiny. Making behavior the target raises moral and ethical worries about pressuring students, and it may weigh on their well-being.
Several critical lenses are turned on the behavior-first approach. In its place, the paper proposes folding behavior into ethics education. Instead of treating conduct as a lever to pull for outside ends, teachers would treat it as something with its own educational worth, worth examining for its own sake. The reframing keeps agency with the student.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Efrat Eilam |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |