ED32A:
Climate Literacy: Overcoming Barriers - €”Research Outcomes and Best Practices for Supporting Education and Informed Decision Making I

Session ID#: 2685

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
102 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Anne U Gold, University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Dana Nuccitelli, Global Change Institute, St Lucia, Australia
Primary Convener:  Minda Berbeco, National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Anne U Gold, University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Julie Lee Lambert, Florida Atlantic University, Key Biscayne, FL, United States and Dana Nuccitelli, Global Change Institute, St Lucia, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Anne U Gold, University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Global Change: Science Literacy, Societal Impacts, and Response Strategies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ED32A-01
Climate, Companies, and Public Policy: How Transparent Is the Private Sector in Reporting Climate Policy Influence? (Invited) (3299)
Gretchen T Goldman, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States and Christina Carlson, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
ED32A-02
Can Knowledge Deficit Explain Societal Perception of Climate Change Risk? (Invited) (5532)
Ritayan Mitra1, Karen McNeal1 and Howard Bondell2, (1)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
ED32A-03
From Disinformation to Wishful Thinking (Invited) (5586)
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, History of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Erik Meade Conway, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
ED32A-04
Countering Climate Confusion in the Classroom: New Methods and Initiatives (Invited) (2910)
Mark McCaffrey1, Minda Berbeco1, Ann H Reid1 and Science League of America, (1)National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA, United States
ED32A-05
The Impact of Project-Based Climate Change Learning Experiences on Students’ Broad Climate Literacy (Invited) (5809)
Jan DeWaters1, Susan E. Powers1 and Suresh Dhaniyala2, (1)Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States, (2)Clarkson University, Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science (CARES) and Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Potsdam, NY, United States
ED32A-06
Applying Agnotology-Based Learning in a Mooc to Counter Climate Misconceptions (Invited) (2372)
John Cook, Skeptical Science, Brisbane, Australia; Global Change Institute, St Lucia, Australia and Skeptical Science
ED32A-07
Using an Integrated Approach to Supporting Climate Change Literacy for Pre-Service Teachers (Invited) (6311)
Heather R. Miller, Stephen Mattox, Pablo A Llerandi-Román and Christopher Dobson, Grand Valley State Univ, Allendale, MI, United States
ED32A-08
Communicating Climate Change: Sometimes It's Not about the Science (Invited) (6284)
Scott A Mandia, Suffolk County Comm. College, Selden, NY, United States
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