Participating fully in the future of work requires developing skills related to green jobs.
Project Description
Participating fully in the future of work requires developing skills related to green jobs. As existing jobs become greener and new green jobs emerge, the workforce will need skills related to understanding complexity, innovation, and problem-finding and -solving. We are developing an inventory of green jobs skills by researching relevant component skills, vetting the inventory with practitioners in Workforce Development, and engaging in a testing and validation study with learners ages 16-24.
Publications
Gandolph, A. & Capeci, I. (2023). Developing Critical Hope: A Necessary Component for an Environmentally Conscious Workforce
Grotzer, T. & Cao, L. (2023). EarthXDesign for a Sustainable World: Moving from Human-Centered to Earth-Centered Design.
Grotzer, T. & Solis, L. (2023). Thinking like an Earthling: Children’s reasoning about individual and collective action related to environmental sustainability. Topics in Cognitive Science.
Resources
Beyond Design Thinking: High-Leverage, Earth-Resonant Moves for Green Innovation
This learning module looks at how the Next Level Learning Team is bringing together high leverage practices from innovation, creativity, design, and engineering that focus specifically on climate and green jobs and shares progress to date.
Educating for Sustainable Development: What Will It Take?
This slide deck was presented as part of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) panel at the China Education Symposium (CES). This special event focused on how to empower ESD in light of global climate change and China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.
Teaching Climate Change
This video provides an overview of Teaching Climate Change, an intensive January Term course taught by Dr. Tina Grotzer. The course invites educators to consider how they can best support young people as they navigate between anxiety/despair and hope/action when they think about climate change.
News
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The Importance of Teaching Climate Change
NLL Faculty Director Dr. Tina Grotzer recently spoke with HGSE’s Ed. Magazine about her course on teaching climate change and the role that educators can play in supporting young people as they navigate between anxiety and despair versus hope and action. You can read the interview and watch a video highlight at this link….Continue Reading…
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EarthXDesign for a Sustainable World: Moving from Human-Centered to Earth-Centered Design
In celebration of Earth Day, we are pleased to share a new piece from NLL Faculty Director Dr. Tina Grotzer and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Lydia Cao: EarthXDesign for a Sustainable World: Moving from Human-Centered to Earth-Centered Design. In this piece, Grotzer and Cao argue that while Human-Centered Design may be helpful in terms of getting…Continue…
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Introducing EarthXDesign to the UX Design Community
On Sunday, April 2nd, Next Level Lab Faculty Director Dr. Tina Grotzer presented the concept of EarthXDesign at the CareXDesign Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The yearly conference draws leaders in the field of Human-Centered Design, including in this year’s slate of speakers, Kathleen Brandenburg of IA Collaborative, Juhan Sonin of GoInvo…Continue…