ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relative merits of three different approaches to sustainability education, each of which aims to have a lasting impact on social behaviour of adopting a school ethos of sustainability. One-off activities or visits from local authority or activist groups and Engaging children as researchers' on a project relating to climate change. The fact that all of these topics arose spontaneously from the children indicated that they were piecing together their understanding of climate change, its causes its effects and human adaptations. The chapter considers causes and effects of climate change or, more generally, environmental education on sustainability. It provokes by children's tweets and photographs relating to their environment would develop into an action plan on some aspect of the local ecology that they deem problematic. The chapter considers the notion of courage and the challenge of teaching about serious environmental issues in the context of institutional cultures that are politically conservative and averse to controversy.
