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Climate Change Education in the Curricula of Technical and Classical Universities

Dagnija BlumbergaMaris Klavins

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Engineering managementEnvironmental educationKey factorsStudy methodsbusiness.industryPolitical scienceTechnical universityClimate changeEngineering ethicsbusinessCurriculum

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Climate change education is becoming an integral part of the education in study programs at universities in Latvia offering environmental education study programs. In this article, a comparison of approaches of climate change education in classical (University of Latvia) and technical (Riga Technical University) are discussed. Requirements of the labour market are the key factors influencing study content and study methods. Therefore, consultations with major stakeholders and with academics involved in environmental education (e.g. the Council of Environmental Education and Science), may be some of the main tools to implement new concepts.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10751-1_8