Climate research by EDST faculty and students

Grain, K. (2022). Critical hope: How to grapple with complexity, lead with purpose, and cultivate transformative social change. North Atlantic Books.
Kluttz, J. (2022). Understanding decolonial learning in the climate justice movement: A decolonial feminist autoethnography (Doctoral dissertation). http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82546
Pham, C. (2023). Examining climate change frames in education, policy, and science (Master’s thesis). http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85538
Piotrowski, M. (2025). Datafying climate justice education: More-than-human learning and self-care in the algorithmic Anthropocene. Environmental Education Research, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2523053
Ruitenberg, C. W. (2025). Welcome to a planet in crisis: Intergenerational justice and educational hospitality as common decency. In T. Szkudlarek & W. Kalisha (Eds.), Educating the next generation: Reflections on crises, migration, and education (pp. 111-124). Springer.
Ruitenberg, C. W. & Wisniewski, T. (2024). Solidarity with youth climate activists: Intergenerational justice and chains of equivalence. In S. Wittig, R. Mayer, & J. Sperschneider (Eds.), Ernesto Laclau: Pädagogische Lektüren (pp. 129-148). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43182-2_6
Ruitenberg, C. W. & Rathje, E. (2022). Perceiving the limits, or: What a pandemic has shown us about the climate crisis. Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 29(1), 72-77. https://doi.org/10.7202/1088385ar
Stein, S. (2024). Universities confronting climate change: Beyond sustainable development and solutionism. Higher Education, 87(1), 165-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-00999-w
Stein, S. & de Oliveira Andreotti, V. (2025). Repurposing the university in times of social and ecological breakdown: From the ivory tower to the nurse log. Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l’éducation, 48(1), 120–144. https://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.7069
Stein, S. & Hare, J. (2023). The challenges of interrupting climate colonialism in higher education: Reflections on a university climate emergency plan. Harvard Educational Review, 93(3), 289–312. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-93.3.289
Tahniat, M. (2024, August 2). Floating schools in Bangladesh: A journey towards empowerment? EDST Blog. https://blogs.ubc.ca/edst/2024/08/02/winner-of-2024-research-day-blog-publication-award-mahfida-tahniat/
VanWynsberghe, R. (2022) Education for sustainability, transformational learning time and the individual <–> collective dialectic. Frontiers in Education, 7, 838388. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.838388
Williams, R. J., & Grain, K. (2025). Teaching in a time of climate collapse: From “an education in hope” to a praxis of critical hope. Sustainability, 17(12), 5459. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17125459