How Big Is My Carbon Footprint? Understanding Young People’s Engagement with Climate Change Education

This paper presents a new engagement model for climate change education (CCE) as result of analysing interactive digital narratives (IDNs) created during the You and CO2 Climate Change Education Programme. Young people aged 13–15 from two schools in Wales participated three workshops, which culminated students producing IDNs about using Twine storytelling software. An inductive, grounded-theory approach informed by Bourdieusien principles habitus value was used to explore students’ responses Stage 1 coding identified ‘Core Themes’ located student along tri-axial continua showing engagement, agency, power. 2 combined build upon Cantell et al.’s 2019 Bicycle Model create ‘holistic Agentic Climate-Change Engagement’ (h-ACE), where learners’ journeys towards full with understanding CCE action could be traced. Barriers were through analysis responses. Results show that related children’s views on their capacity effect individual, local governmental levels. The h-ACE provides adjusting curricula accommodate young people’s varying cultures views.