TY - T1 - Eco-anxiety and Environmental Education SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/322540 T3 - A1 - Pihkala, Panu A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - Anxiety and distress about the ecological crisis seems to be a rapidly growing phenomenon. This article analyzes the challenges and possibilities posed by such "eco-anxiety" for environmental education. Variations of eco-anxiety are analyzed, and it is argued that educators should be aware of the multiple forms that the phenomenon has. Eco-anxiety is found to be closely connected with many difficult emotions, such as grief, guilt, anger, and despair. However, anxiety also has an adaptive dimensi... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1172 Environmental sciences; environmental education; anxiety; eco-anxiety; climate grief; climate anxiety; emotion; psychology; affect; ecoanxiety; climate anxiety; education for sustainable development; climate education; emotion; affect; teaching; pedagogy; ecological grief; solastalgia N1 - PP - ER -