"Carbon literacy practices": textual footprints between school and home in children's construction of knowledge about climate change

Local Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 289-304

  Satchwell, Candice ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon literacy; children; education; environment; literacy practices

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHILD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LITERACY; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 84873693345     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2012.688735     Document Type: Article

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