Climate Change - a teaching resource for SFCC instructors

Teaching climate change is challenging, but a support network of SFCC faculty who teach climate change can share their insights. National, regional and global educators already exist to provide support and key voices incorporating teaching climate change across the curriculum.

Jennifer Barson - Geology 
jennifer.barson@sfcc.spokane.edu

Jacquelyn Belock - Life Sciences
jacquelyn.belock@sfcc.spokane.edu

Adriana Bishop - Chemistry 
adriana.bishop@sfcc.spokane.edu

Tiffany Fulkerson - Anthropology
tiffany.fulkerson@sfcc.spokane.edu

Amy Gray - Biology
amy.gray@sfcc.spokane.edu

Kaden Jelsing - Social Science
kaden.jelsing@sfcc.spokane.edu

Cameron McCormick - Geography
cameron.mccormick@sfcc.spokane.edu

Mary Nagel - Library
mary.nagel@sfcc.spokane.edu

Joanna Petridou-Fischer - Chemistry
j.petridou-fischer@sfcc.spokane.edu

Kyle Serrott - Social Sciences
kyle.serrott@sfcc.spokane.edu

Brian Stack - History
brian.stack@sfcc.spokane.edu

These educators are among the key voices in the conversation about how how to teach climate change across the curriculum in higher education.

Jennifer Atkinson, Associate Professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, Bothell. Her seminars on Eco-anxiety were some of the first of their kind on college campuses, and attracted national attention. Selected works:

• "Addressing climate grief makes you a badass, not a snowflake"  Article in High Country News, May 2018
• Facing It: a podcast about love, loss, and the natural world  A series of podcasts about the emotional burden of climate change, introducing "ways to move from despair to action by addressing the psychological roots of our unprecedented ecological loss."
• Website: drjenniferatkinson.com

Krista Hiser, Senior Lead and Advisor for Sustainability Education at the Global Council for Science and the Environment. Selected works:

• Worry and Hope: What College Students Know, Think, Feel, and Do about Climate Change Article reviewing the research about climate literacy of U.S.college students, and presenting results of a study at the University of Hawaii system, co-written by Matthew Lynch, 2021
• Field Notes: Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education  Blog - "Interviews and musings, teaching to the issues of our times"
   

Elin Kelsey,  a leading spokesperson, scholar and educator in the area of evidence-based hope. Selected works:

• Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis, 2020, Library ebook.
• Website: elinkelsey.org

Panu Pihkala, Scholar and writer, multidisciplinary environmental studies, University of Helsinki. Selected works:

• Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education Academic article reviewing the literature related to eco-anxiety, and proposing strategies for educators to address their own difficult emotions and to develop emotional skills for their teaching.
• "A hopely adventure in tumultuous times: in good company with Panu Pihkala" Blog article by Krista Hiser
• Blog: Eco-anxiety and Hope

Sarah Jaquette Ray, Program leader of the Environmental Studies Program at Humboldt State University. Selected works:

• A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, Library ebook, 2020
• Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula Article in anthology Affective Ecocriticism : Emotion, Embodiment, Environment, 2018
• Website: sarahjaquetteray.com
   

Susan Solomon, Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT; Former director, Environmental Solutions Initiative.

• The Coldest March, 2001