Building hope in environmental studies classrooms: a reflective approach

Building hope in environmental studies classrooms: a reflective approach

Every morning, students walking into environmental studies classrooms around the world carry an invisible weight alongside their notebooks and laptops. They arrive having scrolled through headlines about record-breaking heatwaves, collapsing insect populations, melting ice sheets and bleached coral reefs. For many of them, the subject they have chosen to study—the fate of the living world—feels less like an academic pursuit and more like an ongo…