Exploring the Staff Development UAL resource
I have been educating myself about the subject of Climate Justice for a while now. I include resources on sustainability and climate justice in all my teaching sessions and I make sure that I purchase relevant materials for the Library. However, I must admit that I feel that I did not engage with Climate Justice staff development programmes at UAL enough.
The Canvas website on climate justice is a great resource, but I had a problem with where to start there. The sheer volume of information had initially overwhelmed me. I started by clicking the links and ended up feeling lost with 10 tabs being open at the same time.
Then, I came across a Climate Glossary that is a beautifully designed document explaining vocabulary that we need to understand if we want to start an informed conversation on climate justice. Just going through the definitions makes it clear how the climate justice is interconnected with social and racial justice and how we cannot talk about one without the other. I will share this document with my students together with links to the UAL websites on sustainability (that I do share now).
Learning about the UAL leading CATALYST; a series of workshops was especially useful. In April there is a workshop on carbon literacy that I am interested in. This 8-hour course situates learning about fundamentals of climate change in the context of our daily lives and UAL.
I have also read the document on embedding climate justice in the curriculum. I am working now with it to see how I can use it to enrich my practice as a librarian. I will update this in the blog posts after attending the aforementioned training.