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Integrating Climate Change Issues in Southeast Asian Schools: A Teachers’ Guidebook

The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) was established on 30 November 1965 as a chartered international organization whose purpose is to promote cooperation in education, science, and culture in the Southeast Asian region. 

SEAMEO’s mission is “to enhance regional understanding and cooperation and unity of purpose among SEAMEO Member Countries and achieve a better quality of life through (a) the establishment of networks and partnerships, (b) the provision of an intellectual forum for policymakers and experts, and (c) the promotion of sustainable human resource development.

 

Eight SEAMEO Regional Centres, namely; RECSAM, BIOTROP, SPAFA, SEARCA, SEAMOLEC, TROPMED Philippines, TROPMED Indonesia, and INNOTECH embarked on a collaboration to publish this Teachers’ Guidebook to address the impact of climate change in Southeast Asia. The publication of this guidebook aims to raise the awareness level of our future citizens in Southeast Asia with their teachers’ guidance and help; so that they will take positive actions for a better quality of life on our planet.

This Teachers’ Guidebook is intended for use by educators, teachers, curriculum developers, and instructional administrators responsible for connecting academic concepts with climate change issues in their respective schools and communities across Southeast Asian countries. It was developed by a multidisciplinary team from the different SEAMEO Centers using an interdisciplinary approach.

This guidebook contains the various issues that result from climate change and describes the integration process in developing the adaptive capacity of the people of Southeast Asia through formal and non-formal education. It provides basic information on the causes of global warming that triggers climate change. It also presents lesson exemplars using climate change issues and other environment-oriented or eco-friendly activities as learning context. Moreover, it describes strategies to integrate climate change issues and adaptation concepts in classroom teaching as well as how to assess the effectiveness of such an integrated learning system. 

 

The learning activities are not exhaustive but they serve as a practical guide for honing the teacher’s creativity as a learning facilitator. Maximum utilization of this guidebook will help teachers learn more about the implications of climate change to the environment, its natural resources and human lives as well. To ensure success in adopting the prototype lesson plans, it would require teacher training to assist them in preparing lesson plans that integrate climate change issues in the basic education curriculum. The chapters and accompanying lesson plans can be used as “stand-alone” teaching and learning materials but it would be more useful if the teacher thoroughly reads and understands the Introduction section first.

  • Integrating Climate Change Issues in Southeast Asian Schools: A Teachers’ Guidebook
  • Year: 2010
  • Publication Type: Guidebook