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# Indoctrination of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/indoctrination-of-the-day/
- Published: 2022-12-11T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-12T01:03:00.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Education, Health, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

An opinion piece regarding teaching “climate education” in schools was published yesterday by *Newsroom*. The article states climate education is not a “priority” for the MoE, yet, but modules are already being trialled.

> An aim of the formal education system is to prepare children and young people for their (now unpredictable) futures. \[…\]  
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> “Climate Change: Prepare Today, Live Well Tomorrow” is [available](https://www.nzaee.org.nz/resources/climate-change-learning-programme?ref=goodoil.news) free from the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education. \[…\] The eight modules cover topics from climate change science and indigenous knowledge systems to critical thinking and communication. \[…\]

A new course to run alongside the existing modules has been developed in collaboration with young people:

> They were aware of the connections between politics, economics, racism, colonisation, and ‘toxic masculinity’, as well as the dangers of social media.   
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> Focus group participants considered Maori and Pacific worldviews to be key to addressing climate change, a view shared by other [young climate activists](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448858/indigenous-knowledge-key-to-addressing-climate-change-rangatahi-activist?ref=goodoil.news). \[…\]  
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> The high school climate activists were very critical of individualistic ‘self-care’ approaches to wellbeing they had experienced in their schooling, recognising climate as a collective, existential crisis.  
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> *[Newsroom](https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/climate-change-education-needs-to-better-engage-pupils?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2k3sM0NxmgOYFZCfC7fOZ%5FmdB11dR0NH4MYqu9xuSlvFaGyM5DMTG6TNE#Echobox=1670699079)*  
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> *[Newsroom](https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/climate-change-education-needs-to-better-engage-pupils?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2k3sM0NxmgOYFZCfC7fOZ%5FmdB11dR0NH4MYqu9xuSlvFaGyM5DMTG6TNE#Echobox=1670699079)*

Meanwhile, this well-supported (Pharmac, Health NZ, among others) and doctor-recommended website appears to diagnose *everything* a teen might experience as “climate change anxiety”.

> **Symptoms of climate change anxiety**  
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> Climate change anxiety affects people in different ways. It can cause a range of psychological and physical symptoms such as feeling:  
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> Symptoms can come on gradually or build up quickly and sometimes they can go away. As anxiety increases, it can lead to changes in your behaviour.   
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> You might regularly:  
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> [Health Navigator NZ](https://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/health-a-z/c/climate-change-anxiety/?fbclid=IwAR3%5FO8IgE6AZ0p6Y0oSXo3O01mGLug86EvuoNkZgHOp40wWhYfKs35G-eWM&ref=goodoil.news)  
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> [Health Navigator NZ](https://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/health-a-z/c/climate-change-anxiety/?fbclid=IwAR3%5FO8IgE6AZ0p6Y0oSXo3O01mGLug86EvuoNkZgHOp40wWhYfKs35G-eWM&ref=goodoil.news)

NZ’s [literacy and numeracy](https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/education/the-front-page-how-new-zealands-low-literacy-rate-impacts-the-economy/?ref=goodoil.news) rates are trending down and [mental health issues are increasing](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sir-peter-gluckman-warns-of-overwhelming-new-pandemic-of-mental-health-problems-in-children-and-teens/QPQZVBACBOGBBZLKQPRUDB2CBQ/?ref=goodoil.news).

Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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