"Unfortunately, it's not climate activists who are running the nation."

Uncertainty as a student category on global problems

Abstract

This article uses the example of a case study to reconstruct how students deal with the category of cer­tainty/uncertainty to address ecological crises and the future of society in social science learning processes. In doing so, we focus on learning potentials between religious and social science education in learning processes on sustaina­ble development. Based on empirical lesson and interview excerpts we show that students focus on uncertainty as a process of discursive political construction between different social subsystems in order to deal with anthropo­genic climate change not only as an ecological but predominantly as a political and socio-structural global problem using the example of the Australian bushfires 2019/2020. Interdisciplinary learning processes between religious and social science education can thereby initiate an alternating motion of world observation and one's own understand­ings of self and world in order to teach “Retinität” in a categorical and problem-based way.