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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Planet Classroom’s Net Zero Features Tina Grotzer
Recently, Climate Activist Michele Whiting interviewed NLL Faculty Director DR. Tina Grotzer for Planet Classroom’s new series, “Net Zero Speaks” about educating for the transition to Net Zero, making approaches to climate education more inclusive, as well as shifting mindsets from short-term to long-term thinking. The interview can be found here: https://www.planetclassroom.world/tina-grotzer/…Continue Reading Planet Classroom’s Net Zero…
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Times of India Article on Helping Children Balance Climate Hope and Despair
Recently, NLL Faculty Director Dr. Tina Grotzer spoke to Srijana Mitra Das for the Times Evoke section of the Times of India to discuss how to help students to navigate between hope and despair during a time of climate change. You can find the interview at this link….Continue Reading Times of India Article on Helping Children…
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Experiences of Awe and Meaning at Work
The emotion of awe has become an increasingly popular topic of interest for social science researchers over the past two decades. A small but growing body of research makes the case that these milder forms of awe can and should be elicited in the context of work….Continue Reading Experiences of Awe and Meaning at Work