Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion.
Mr. Shari Irfan:
I completely agree. It is an incredibly exciting subject. I had a very active role in making sure it turned out the way it did. We are very happy as an organisation and a union about it.
To the point about teaching students how to organise and be aware of what is happening around them, that is an amazing skill for a young person to have. I only got my organisational skills when I joined the ISSU because we learned how to organise protests, and through that how to organise events. Adding that to the curriculum is fantastic. The way it will be done is students will study different movements. They will see who the key people were, how they did what they did, and what the message was. That will be very effective for young people in their student council when they go to their board of management with an issue.
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