Teaching Sustainability through Critical literacy

Dr. Rowan Oberman is Assistant Professor of Global Citizenship Education at the Institute of Education at DCU and teaches on a range of under-graduate and postgraduate programmes including initial teacher education courses and the DCU Masters in Climate Change. She is Co-Director of the DCU Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education. Her  research is in the areas of: climate change education, picturebooks, children rights and creative writing. Her doctoral study explored how picturebook reading and writing support critical inquiry-based climate change education and examines children’s emotional responses to learning and reading about climate change. She has developed numerous curriculum resources and has written two picturebooks.  She is also a qualified Barrister.