Educating for hope in troubled times: climate change and the transition to a post-carbon future

Hutchinson, Francis P.

doi:10.1080/17400201.2017.1341069

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“…By identifying particular configurations of concern and hope related to global and future stressors, several notable patterns emerged. First, the Hopeful cluster of adolescents was largest (32% of adolescents) pointing to a general positivity among a significant proportion of youth; finding this group of adolescents supports previous research that has found a substantial proportion who are high in hopefulness and optimism about global and future issues (Bishop & Willis, 2014;Hicks, 2014;Ojala, 2012a;Sanson & Bellemo, 2021). In addition, consistent with hope theory and past research on hope (Snyder, 2002;-Snyder et al, 1997;Valle et al, 2004), hopeful adolescents had the most positive personal adjustment.…”

Section: Cluster Differences In Ways Of Coping and Personal Adjustmentsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Other research has concentrated on what has been called hope or optimism , arguing that a positive outlook can play multiple roles in the face of stressors (Bishop & Willis, 2014; Carver & Scheier, 1999; Folkman, 2008; Ojala, 2012a, 2012b, 2015). Most relevant for the present study, hope has been described as having a direct role in motivating youth's positive behavior and maintaining engagement in self‐development or societal issues (Bishop & Willis, 2014; Hicks, 2014; Ojala, 2012a, 2012b, 2015). Nevertheless, possibly reflecting a dual role of hope, high hope can also be founded on disbelief in the seriousness of world events, as well as being associated with disengagement and inaction (e.g., Gifford, 2011; Ojala, 2012a, 2015).…”

Section: Worries Anger and Hope About The Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

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A pattern‐centered analysis of adolescents' concerns and hopes about future crises: Differences in ways of coping and personal adjustment

Zimmer‐Gembeck

Modecki

Duffy

et al. 2023

Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction Many adolescents are concerned about global and future crises, such as the health of the planet or terrorism/safety. Yet, adolescents can also express hope about the future. Thus, asking adolescents about their concern and hope could yield subgroups with different ways of coping and personal adjustment. Method Australian adolescents (N = 863; age 10–16) completed surveys to report their concern (worry and anger) and hope about the planet, safety, jobs, income, housing, and technology, as well as their active and avoidant coping, depression, and life satisfaction. Results Four distinct subgroups were identified using cluster analysis: Hopeful (low on concern and high on hope across all issues, 32%), Uninvolved (low in concern and hope; 26%), Concerned about the Planet (CP, 27%), and Concerned about Future Life (CFL, 15%). When compared (adjusting for age, sex, and COVID timing), the CP subgroup was highest in active coping (e.g., taking action) but moderate in personal adjustment. Hopeful had the most positive adjustment, whereas CFL had the poorest adjustment. Uninvolved were lowest in coping but moderate in adjustment. Conclusions Findings suggest ways of coping and adjustment may not always align, in that CP is connected with more active coping but also some cost to personal adjustment, whereas Hopeful is associated with optimal adjustment but perhaps at the cost of active coping. In addition, although CFL adolescents emerged as the at‐risk group, the low levels of hope and coping in Uninvolved adolescents raise the possibility that they are at risk of future problems.

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Section: Cluster Differences In Ways Of Coping and Personal Adjustmentsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Worries Anger and Hope About The Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

A pattern‐centered analysis of adolescents' concerns and hopes about future crises: Differences in ways of coping and personal adjustment

Zimmer‐Gembeck

Modecki

Duffy

et al. 2023

Journal of Adolescence

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“…As with stories of innocence and vulnerability, this storyline emphasizes the incompleteness of young people (Wyn & White, 1997) and justifies the limited opportunities for them to participate in public decision‐making associated with adulthood (Matthews et al, 1999). A version of this storyline can be seen in research that argues educators have a responsibility to equip young people to enable them to live in dire climate futures (Hicks, 2014). In the latter telling, young people are imagined as active participants in making the future, for example through participation in school climate strikes.…”

Section: Storylines Of Young People and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Innocent heroes or self‐absorbed alarmists? A thematic review of the variety and effects of storylines about young people in climate change discourses

Jones

Davison

Lucas

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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Discourses about young people are interacting with climate change discourses in ways that often marginalize the young in social responses to climate change. The resulting stories about young people in a changing climate build upon long‐standing representations of youthhood in late modern societies as a liminal, ill‐defined state between childhood and adulthood. The social and behavioral sciences have both helped produce these stories and critically examined their origins, characteristics, and effects. This article offers a novel critical review of ideas about young people in climate change research across a wide variety of disciplines and fields, including geography, psychology, sociology, education, political studies, health studies, media studies, legal studies, and youth studies. We employ Hajer's account of discursive storylines to identify seven ways in which young people are storied in climate discourses. While distinct, stories of young people as innocent, vulnerable, heroic, alarmist, inheriting, apathetic or narcissistic overlap, and interact. This variety of storylines reflects the mutable category of young people and the deliberate ambiguity with which it is often deployed. We use this typology in three ways to advance the interests of young people in climate change discourses. First, we show how these discourses are indebted to while also changing understandings of young people in late modern societies. Second, we consider the potential impacts of these stories on young lives and on responses to climate change. Third, we identify prospects for new stories to emerge as young voices become increasingly important in urgent social discussions of climate change.This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Communication Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Perceptions of Climate Change

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“…As David Orr reflects, ‘Hope is a verb, with its sleeves rolled up’ (Orr, 2011, p. 324). Educationalists such as Freire (2004) and Hicks (2014) also advocate for a pedagogy of hope and consider the importance of this in teaching practice.…”

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The Tree(s) of Hope and Ambition: An arts‐based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID‐19

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This paper offers a new child‐centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self‐reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longitudinal, arts‐based, social science‐informed project was delivered by partnering with schools in socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, a UK city. Our two‐phase activity used a Tree metaphor to explore children's hopes, ambitions and support, looking forward to recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The analysis combined multi‐disciplinary thematic and visual‐narrative analysis, and revealed diversity, intersection and individuality in themes that scaled out from the child and their family over different timescales. Themes included emotion (concerns; empathy), experiences (happenings, resources skills; aspirations) and relationships, linked to their recent experiences of COVID‐19 mitigation. The paper reflects critically on children's and researchers' positionality, and the complexities involved in developing research methods that encourage children's autonomy, agency and authenticity.

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Educating for hope in troubled times: climate change and the transition to a post-carbon future

Cited by 5 publications

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A pattern‐centered analysis of adolescents' concerns and hopes about future crises: Differences in ways of coping and personal adjustment

A pattern‐centered analysis of adolescents' concerns and hopes about future crises: Differences in ways of coping and personal adjustment

Innocent heroes or self‐absorbed alarmists? A thematic review of the variety and effects of storylines about young people in climate change discourses

The Tree(s) of Hope and Ambition: An arts‐based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID‐19

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