A shift from teaching to learn learning think is necessary promote critical thinkers. Since teachers tend replicate the educational models they have experienced as students, new references are needed. In order address these concerns, we present an interdisciplinary intervention in initial teacher education and analyse its impact on teachers’ thinking awareness of importance it. The based potent...

Climate change is a familiar issue. It is an issue where we can observe the ways societies and their leaders frame and respond to wicked problems. If we believe the predictions of the vast majority of qualified scientists the climate problem has the potential to devastate life on the planet and civilisation as we know it. The Alfred Deakin Lecture Series – held in Melbourne and Bendigo, Austral...

We are living in a climate of fear about our future climate. The language of the public discourse around global warming routinely uses a repertoire which includes words such as ‘catastrophe’, ‘terror’, ‘danger’, ‘extinction’ and ‘collapse’. To help make sense of this phenomenon the story of the complex relationships between climates and cultures in different times and in different places is in ...

 This paper examines the two most important current efforts to devise new rules binding all nations the negotiations in the WTO of trade rules and the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to devise rules restricting the annual emissions of greenhouse gases. Both negotiations have failed after several years of intensive effort. There are remarkable parallels in these ...