"Greta Thunberg (2021) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara" by Maughn Gregory
 

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Greta Thunberg learned about climate change in school at the age of eight, when she persuaded her parents to make lifestyle changes to reduce their carbon footprint. At fifteen, after winning a writing competition about the environment, she came up with the idea of a school strike, inspired by student walkouts in the United States to protest legislative inaction on gun control. Though she couldn’t interest anyone else in the idea, her one-child strikes soon gained international attention. Greta’s story demonstrates some of the challenges and gifts that neurodiverse children bring to activism. This book also prods adults to think of social change as children’s work, and to join them in strategizing and risk assessment.

Publication Date

2024

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

environmental education, philosophy for children, child activism, climate change, Greta Thunberg

Disciplines

Early Childhood Education | Education | Environmental Education | Philosophy

Greta Thunberg (2021) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

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