I’ve been studying climate change issues for years, and particularly ways of conveying the complexities to a wider audience. Most recently, I got an article published in Yesterday & Today, a South Africa-based history teaching journal. Its title is "Poverty, inequality, and atmospheric colonisation: Pointers for the school history curriculum". It is freely available here. I have started constructing a 45-minute YouTube video titled "Climate change for history teachers", which draws from the article. In this work I've tried to 'marry' my earlier career as a secondary school history teacher (at Ḽiivha School in Limpopo) to my current career as a very data-focussed education economist. The first iteration of the video appears immediately below. The script for the video and a description of what software I used how to put it together are accessible here.
In 2021 I completed a working paper that provides a fairly detailed account of the concepts, analyses and policies the comprise the basis for South Africa's emissions reductions strategies. To me it seemed there was nothing like this available, in the sense of a thoroughly referenced account in relatively plain English, which for instance a secondary school teacher could use to plan a series of classes, or an assignment for students. The appendix to the paper describes where in the existing grades 10 to 12 curriculum climate change topics can be found.
The paper led to a Rhodes ISER webinar, a YouTube video of which appears below.
My Facebook page Martin Gustafsson's Take on Data, started in 2016, can be found if you click here, but it is now also replicated on the current website here. The Facebook blog has a mix of education planning posts and climate change posts.