#875: Youth Climate Storytelling as Transformative Learning: A Scoping Review of Designs, Contexts, and Digital Practices

This scoping review synthesizes 30 peer-reviewed studies (2014–2024) on youth storytelling in climate change education, illuminating how storytelling approaches foster transformative climate change learning. Findings reveal that storytelling functions as relational infrastructure while relating climate complexity into lived experience, cultivating eco-emotional awareness and agency, and sustaining Indigenous and community knowledge. Across formal and informal settings, educators and youth partnered to co-create stories that merged data, emotion, and cultural meaning. Digital tools such as participatory video, multimedia, and augmented reality expanded access and impact but also raised questions of equity and authorship. By mapping designs, scaffolds, and digital practices, the review offers design implications for research-practice partnerships that nurture belonging, imagination, and civic participation through climate storytelling.