NILUFAR MAMATKULOVA (UZBEKISTAN STATE WORLD LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY)

INTEGRATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN UZBEKISTAN : GLOBAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

What is climate justice? Climate justice emphasizes that environmental change is not just a natural problem, but a social and policy-based one. The saddest thing is that ecological and environmental emergencies are not created equally by everyone and their effects are not spread equally. Climate justice is about acknowledging uncertainty and challenging natural processes, as well as challenging inequality and prejudice. Environmental degradation, pollution, floods, fires and displacement disproportionately affect marginalized people and communities. Although climate change affects everyone, it affects the poorest people, women and other disadvantaged groups first and most negatively. Language teachers have an important role to play in ensuring that students engage with the climate crisis and climate justice. More importantly, not everyone has contributed equally to environmental and climate problems, nor have their effects been spread equally. Acknowledging this disparity and taking environmental action to combat racism, inequality and prejudice is a climate justice movement. Climate change and environment, the focus of this study, is a cross-cutting subject that can be integrated into all teaching subjects like history, mathematics, science subjects, English language, geography, fine art among others. Mitigation against the adverse effects of climate change and environmental degradation requires concerted effort from all concerned stakeholders and analysis about the current Teacher Educators' practices in integrating Climate Change Mitigation in Language Teacher Education Programs in Teacher Training Institutions in Uzbekistan.

Nilufar Mamatkulova, PhD., Head of the department of Aplied Sciences 2 and EFL lecturer at Uzbekistan State University of World Languages, well-organised, highly motivated, reliable, flexible and have excellent communication skills.