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POLISH POLITICAL PARTIES TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEED TO INTRODUCE FORMAL CLIMATE EDUCATION
Piotr SWACHA1, Zbigniew M. KARACZUN2
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 29 December 2023
Keywords: climate change, education, party programmes, content analysis
Abstract The most important factor influencing the possibility of interposition the climate education to school curricula is the attitude of political circles to climate issue. In order to define the outlined problem, we decided to analyze party programmes from the years 2005-2019, both in terms of the parties` attitude to the method of generating energy (which can be perceived as an important indicator of their attitude to climate policy) and directly to climate education. The research was based on the assumptions of the content analysis and discourse network analysis. The results indicate that while parties energy concepts have evolved over years towards more pro-climatic, climate education itself is not often referred to as an important issue and occurs mainly in the parties` programmes in the context of general environmental education.
Department of Sociology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0001-8178-4457
E-mail: piotr_swacha@sggw.edu.pl
Department of Environmental Protection and Dendrology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0001-6971-275X
E-mail: zbigniew_karaczun@sggw.edu.pl