Changes in students' knowledge, values, worldview, and willingness to adopt climate mitigation measures after completing a comprehensive climate change education course" is an article published in 2022 by Tolppanen et al. The interesting thing about this study is that it forced us to discover an alternative system of teaching climate change, called "holistic", by considering the effects of this system on student representation and on climate action.

From this article, La Fabrique Écologique maintains three basic points:

1.  : In many countries, education about climate change focuses mainly on the physico-chemical dimension of this phenomenon and on the dissemination of scientific data. So it provides knowledge, but without teaching students a more proactive approach to solving climate problems. The alternative education model that the authors consider aims to address this limitation by combining knowledge acquisition and re-evaluation of representations and social and individual behavior towards the goal of climate mitigation.
2.  : Holistic education can be defined as a new educational paradigm offering a creative, global and multidisciplinary approach that conceives the teaching and learning process as a whole, where the student is able to connect different knowledge. Applied to the topic of climate change, it aims to increase knowledge, develop reflection, address values and visions of the world, motivate students to act, mobilize emotions associated with climate problems and create future scenarios from what the world. could and should look. Although these educational goals are widely accepted, there is no consensus on how holistic education can achieve them in practice.
3.  : The authors highlight the increase in scientific knowledge among students who took a course using this approach. But the other's knowledge of specific means of action increases only very slightly. As a result, there really is no change in their willingness to take mitigation measures. On the other hand, we observe a reevaluation of biodiversity among students, which is a strong factor of pro-environmental behavior. The training also enabled participants to identify greener strategies to satisfy their hedonic pleasures and realize that it is possible to live freely while protecting the environment. (Alice Cortana).