Author: Fred Hooper

Using music and song to incorporate climate literacy into Fijian classrooms

Source(s): Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A Fijian researcher hopes to use music and song to help school students better understand climate literacy, saying there are nursery rhymes, poems and dances which speak to natural disasters and indigenous knowledge around climate change.

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“We remember things better if we sing them; if we talk about it and practice, not so much writing. With the repetition of words in songs, children tend to remember better.”

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