Curating Hopeful Responses To Climate Trauma
This research will produce more nuanced understandings of how hope is collectively curated for, with, and by teachers and students in response to climate related issues, illustrating how hoping for better worlds must acknowledge despair, trauma, tension, trouble, and suffering. Through ethnography, it inquires into how educators kindle hope with students as they think about, learn with, and engage collectively in climate-related issues. Rather than reproducing a hope/despair binary, this research wonders how teachers invite students to potentially co-create pathways to hope amid climate and ecological anxiety, fear, trauma, loss, and grief; to open up new ways of thinking about hope/despair and care in climate change education. With curiosity about language/terminology, stories, resources, curricula, and learning activity choices, this research invites thoughtfulness about how teachers provoke students to foster collective hopefulness possibilities.