Titre : Is it possible to reconcile students’ commitment to the climate with their access to emancipatory knowledge and under what conditions? Auteurs : Denise Orange Ravachol, Revue : Educations Numéro : Issue 2 Volume : 6 Date : 2023/03/22 DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.0959 ISSN : 2632-590X Résumé : Climate change is a major societal concern. By taking it into consideration, the official instructions subject the school to a double challenge: to make the students understand scientifically the reasons for it and to engage them in the fight to stop it. Is it possible, and under what conditions, to reconcile these objectives? Our contribution studies these questions by focusing on the greenhouse effect, which is studied at different levels of education and regularly mobilized by the media. Based on a media support and on extracts from textbooks, we show on the one hand that what is proposed tends to get rid of scientific explanations in order to go as fast as possible to prescription and action; on the other hand, that the reasoned commitment of students for the climate necessarily passes by the development of critical ways of thinking and thus to their access to emancipating knowledge. Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience