Cultivating kindness and justice-informed approaches within the Climate Education curriculum
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” — Baba Dioum
Our Goal
The Climate-Kind Pedagogy project is an attempt at collecting, developing and sharing kindness-informed educational approaches to support climate education. It offers an interdisciplinary approach to climate education through:
Constructivism
Humanizing Pedagogy. Reality is determined by experience
Reflexive Pedagogy
Dismantle Hierarchies. Student autonomy and responsibility
Foundational Values
Kindness, Reciprocity, Resilience, Justice, Interconnections, Relationships
Transformative Learning Theory
Challenge & Support students through a variety of situations and experiences
At a Glance
Climate Justice in Teacher Ed
An open-access resource hub to support climate justice education.
This project synthesizes theory, research, and practice into usable materials for educators, with the goal of sharing knowledge and supporting broader engagement in climate justice conversations.
CKP Resources
Kindness can transform our world, one act at a time. By understanding what kindness is, learning ways to spread it, and exploring its impact, we can make a real difference.
Join us in discovering why kindness matters and how small actions can create a big impact.
Climate-Kind Framework
An overview of the Climate-Kind Pedagopy using artistic expressions.
It uses different things in nature to illustrate the progression from foundational values through teaching attitudes, activities, and finally leading to desired educational outcomes.
Projects
Explore the courses, projects and programs embedding and practising the Climate-Kind Pedagogy framework
Acknowledgments and Gratitude
We are grateful to be able to do this work on the ancestral, traditional and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this project provided by UBC Vancouver students via the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. We also acknowledge the support of Sustainability Hub at UBC for generously supporting this project.