Center for Teaching & Learning

As a climate educator, Dr. Jaquette Ray has a unique perspective to share about teaching during this pandemic. As an advocate for embracing the affective domain in teaching, she encourages students to constructively engage with uncertainty. Based on this rich teaching experience, she will share her insights and strategies, focusing on how can we support our students in developing skills needed in this moment. This remote presentation will be delivered via MS Teams.

Sarah Jaquette Ray is author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (UC Press, 2020), which came out on Earth Day this year, in the middle of our current climate crisis—coronavirus. Ray is a professor of environmental studies at Humboldt State University in California. She has ten years’ experience building environmental studies BA programs, and drew on that experience, and her training as an environmental humanities and justice scholar, to develop this ‘existential toolkit’ for building personal resilience in the face of global dread and climate anxiety. Her previous monograph is The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (Arizona, 2013). Her research has turned toward emotions, pedagogy, and climate anxiety, and how to tailor environmental education to take students’ emotional engagement with climate change more seriously.

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