Case Studies
Case Studies
In this section we showcase the work of trainees, PGCE graduates and those associated with Warwick who have developed work in schools around climate change and sustainability. If you would like your work to be shared here, please email Jake Lever at J.R.Lever@warwick.ac.uk
Engaging the Early Years in Caring for their Environment
With a full curriculum and a busy schedule to get through each day, it’s not always easy to find enough time or space to dedicate part of our students learning time to nature and the environment. But opportunities to bring nature to our students can be found in all sorts of places and in so many different ways.
My name is Louise Knight, and I am an early childhood educator in a bilingual school in the French Alps. I’d like to share a little of the work we do at our school in creatively finding ways to motivate, involve, inspire, and engage young learners to understand and care about their environments, helping them to take part and feel part of the green spaces around them.
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Starting Conversations with Art and Design
Art and Design open doors to worlds, ideas, and conversations about the contexts in which we live and the art we create. Our world is saturated with imagery. Therefore, through art and design education, our school aims to empower learners to be visually literate and contribute to the visual languages that surround them.
My name is Rosie Turner, and I teach Visual Arts to secondary school students at Achieve Xiamen International School in Fujian Province, China. I am pleased to have this opportunity to present projects in which my students have engaged with to communicate their ideas about raising awareness of environmental issues.
The creation of these artworks has given students a voice to discuss environmental concerns that are important to them. The concepts and questions communicated in the work visualise young people's concerns and motivations to share their stories on climate change and pollution.
I hope that by sharing their work to open more opportunities for creative collaboration and explore important questions with teachers and learners in our global community.