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Greening the next generation national curricula, school practices, and resilience across countries Sukie Yang
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Sukie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology.
- Education.
- Climate change.
- 0626.
- 0515.
- 0404.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociology.
- Education.
- Climate change.
- 0626.
- 0515.
- 0404.
- Genre:
- Academic theses
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 87-12B
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2026
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As climate change intensifies, education is increasingly recognized as a critical tool for building adaptive capacity and fostering environmental action. Yet we know little about how climate change education policies are adopted, whether they translate into school practice, and how climate anomalies themselves threaten educational progress. This dissertation addresses these questions through three studies linking an original dataset of national curriculum frameworks from over 170 countries with international assessment data and high-resolution climate records. The first chapter examines how the contested interplay between pro-climate and counter-climate movements shapes both the intensity and epistemic framing of climate content in national curricula. The second chapter investigates the conditions under which curricular policy commitments translate into school-level practice. The third chapter turns to the impact side, showing that compound climate anomalies in West Africa reduce primary school completion through pathways that single-hazard models fail to capture, and that maternal education buffers against some but not all climate threats. Together, these chapters illuminate the interplay between climate change and education-how education systems respond to the climate crisis, and how the crisis in turn shapes the educational landscape
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-12, Section: B.
- Advisors: Hannum, Emily Committee members: Behrman, Jere R.; Song, Xi; Benavot, Aaron
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2026
- Vendor supplied data
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798247972839
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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