How Beliefs Differ by Education Levels in India
Provided by: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication|Published on: May 12, 2025|Last updated: September 26, 2026
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Articles/Websites
Subjects: Civics
Authors: Jazmin Morris, Matthew Goldberg, Laura Thomas-Walters, Jagadish Thaker, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Mallika Talwar, Marija Verner, Seth Rosenthal, Anthony Leiserowitz
Location: Asia
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Synopsis
- This article from Yale Program on Climate Change Communication illustrates the connection between education levels and knowledge about climate change in India.
- The article concludes by explaining how these differences should be considered when developing communication strategies to inform others about climate change.
Teaching Materials
Positives
- Both text and visual aids work together to facilitate understanding.
- This is a brief article that can be read and discussed within a short class period.
Prerequisites
- Students should understand climate change.
- Teachers may need to define the term literate.
Differentiation & Implementation
- After reading the article, students can discuss why education level would influence climate change beliefs and make connections to how they have learned about climate change.
- Students can design a climate change communication campaign for India that uses the data to inform the strategy.
- Students can check out the similar resource, Climate Change in the American Mind: Fall 2024, to understand American beliefs about climate change.
- Have students research and discuss how this information is related to the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically with gender equality and access to education topics.
This resource from Yale's program on Climate Change Communication provides a brief overview of education levels versus global warming knowledge. Links within the resource provide access to the prior study and an older 2012 report. Three static bar graph images provide relatively up-to-date information about the education levels of individuals and how much those individuals know about global warming and its effects. While the resource contains slightly outdated information, the data is still useful for a classroom discussion concerning socio-economics and its relation to climate change.
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