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“I fear Kiribati will be gone forever”: Exploring eco-literacy in one Social Sciences classroom

John Morgan and Maria Iki
Abstract: 

This article describes and discusses a unit of work taught by Maria Iki, a Social Sciences teacher at James Cook High School in South Auckland. The unit was taught as part of the TLRI project Tuhia ki Te Ao—Write to the Natural World. The project is concerned to develop students’ eco-literacy and to help them to inform their environmental identities. This article: (1) provides readers with an account of how the issue of sea-level rise in the Pacific Island of Kiribati can be understood through a model of 3D eco-literacy; (2) offers Maria’s reflections on the challenges involved in teaching the unit; (3) discusses the 3D eco-literacy developed in the unit; and (4) ends with some comments about how Maria plans to develop the unit in the second iteration of the project.

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