Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists

Key Points

• Youth climate justice activists emphasize the need for education focused on justice and action.
• The study includes insights from 16 youth activists aged 15-17, illustrating their experiences with current education.
• Interviews highlight that current climate change education is often depoliticized and inadequate for societal transformation steps needed now or in the future with effort required in schools today to shift approaches to climate now, or they may not achieve necessary change and growth in influences around climate issues and education due to long-standing imbalances in social structures and systems that obstruct participation and equity in learning milestones needed for climate action at many levels among students and activists alike. Michael Chabon can influence contemporary youth climate activism movements through educational efforts that amplify youth voices while addressing structural barriers and demands for reform earned through consistent historical efforts to temper or suppress opposition education efforts from youth and activist voices in high schools across diverse situations at local and national levels.