ENCOMPASS

ENgaging and orienting the young in the COMPlexity of
climAte change and Sustainability
to foster agency and deliberation in Societally relevant choices

Project Mission

ENCOMPASS aims at creating a more resilient, cohesive, inclusive, open, and democratic society.
It will take innovative approaches to adapt education to the evolving needs of society. It aspires to create through school education a society where the young generation is responsive to existing and unexpected threats, and able identify, devise, and put into action mitigation and adaptation strategies for the sustainable transition.

We aim at doing so appling a multidisciplinary approach. Indeed we investigate the issue from three integrated lenses:

Philosophy will allow a deeper understanding of the relationship between knowledge and agency; will explore the possible causes of false beliefs formation; will investigate the twofold nature of CC agency – individual and collective; will provide a reflection on the duties of the individual as a citizen of a global and interconnected society.

Economics will investigate the behavioural mechanisms and antecedents of socially relevant choices and the dynamic effects of individual actions when combined; will test ways in which participation and action can be promoted; will develop innovative tools to assess willingness to act, and use them as didactic instruments to foster a deeper understanding of the role of the individual in addressing socially relevant problems.

Science education will unpack the relationships between knowledge, skills, and attitudes; will identify strategies, methodologies, tools, and space–time structures to equip students to critically engage with scientific knowledge, which will foster their decision-making and support them to become agents of change; will produce results that will guide the design of effective teaching/learning experiences.

Philosophical research lens

Economics research lens

Science Education research lens

Education experiences

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