Leadership Networks for Climate Change (LNCC) emerged out of a passion for teaching and a desire to better equip students to understand the complexities of climate change. It aimed to provide a space and basic structure to allow for collaboration and create situations where inspiring and influential teaching can occur.
To do this required working across the traditional university structure to make the student experience of learning about climate change comprehensive. The structure of the project allowed staff working within different disciplines to have regular conversations with those in other disciplines, enmeshing activities and ideas of climate change within diverse teaching areas.
The project recognised the challenges faced by academics desiring to teach this broad subject in ways which escape the restrictions of siloed disciplines. The project attempted to help create a form of leadership and teaching structure that can move through these structural challenges.
The project was funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) and is an extension of a pilot study ran out of the University of Tasmania in 2008. The pilot network involved a group of academics teaching in areas from journalism to biology, primary education teacher training to geography. Face to face meetings with one another enabled climate change to become part of each subject in innovative ways that allowed for student led projects and ideas.
The LNCC project extended the pilot project to three new universities with the support of the ALTC. University of Woolongong, University of NSW and Murdoch University joined the University of Tasmania network in providing a discussion and support space for innovating climate change teaching and developing distributed leadership.
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