Inquiry-based learning on climate change. Effects of a science-propaedeutic upper secondary school seminar.

Autor/inn/en	Schulz, Johannes; Schubert, Jan Christoph; Höhnle, Steffen; Ohl, Ulrike
Titel	Inquiry-based learning on climate change. Effects of a science-propaedeutic upper secondary school seminar.
Quelle	In: International research in geographical and environmental education, (2026) online first, 21 Apr 2026, 21 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1747-7611
DOI	10.1080/10382046.2026.2656158
Schlagwörter	Interesse; Didaktik; Forschendes Lernen; Unterricht; Klimawandel
Abstract	Geography education integrates perspectives from the natural and social sciences and is therefore particularly promising for climate change education. Against this background, and in view of the encouraging potential of inquiry-based learning in climate education, a geographical-scientific propaedeutic seminar on climate change in upper secondary schools in Germany (Bavaria) was developed. This 18-month intervention was aimed at facilitating integration of scientific inquiry with local climate challenges. For the present study, the effects of the seminar on students' self-assessed certainty, risk perception, and interests, each regarding anthropogenic climate change, were investigated in a quasi-experimental pre-post-test design with an experimental group (N = 89) and a control group (N = 71). Mixed-design ANOVAs and ANCOVAs with repeated measures revealed positive effects of the treatment group compared to the control group, with moderate effect sizes for certainty and interest and a small effect size for risk perception. These results indicate that integrating locally anchored, long-term, inquiry-based approaches into geography education can effectively foster components of climate science literacy to address the educational and societal challenges of climate change. (übernommen).
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Update	2026/4