This is a wonderful podcast about a guy who unintentionally starts-up a counter ‘actual conspiracy’ movement during a ‘women against Trump’ protest that was escalating when ‘women for Trump also showed up. He wondered – what will happen if I would hold up a poster about a totally different ludicrous position? He wrote on the back of an old poster: ‘Birds Aren’t Real! Listen to what happened. Worth every minute of it. Here is the link.
Tomorrow afternoon the ESD group of the Faculty of Education of Gothenburg University is hosting a seminar on Education for Sustainable Development in the ‘Capitalocene’ which is based on a Special Issue that just appeared in Educational Philosophy and Theory 54(3), 2022: Here you find the link Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol 54, No 3 (Current issue) (tandfonline.com). During the seminar editors and contributors – including someone I have always greatly admired and had the pleasure to work with for more that 30 (!) years now: Bob Jickling. as well as other wonderful invited experts will discuss questions like:
– What urgent future research trajectories do we see for Education for sustainable development in the Anthro-Capitalocene?
– What does the Anthropo-Capitalocene mean for educational practice? “As educators, working within these multiple tipping points, where do we stand?” (Do we still believe in education?)
Below you find the program and the Zoom-link:
Monday, 7th February at 3:15 – 5:00 p.m. (CET) on Zoom:
https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/helenapedersen
Invited guest speakers:
Prof. Em. Bob Jickling, Lakehead University (Canada)
Senior Lecturer Nick Peim, University of Birmingham (UK)
Prof. Jason Wallin, University of Alberta (Canada)
Seminar schedule:
3:15-3:25: Welcome and introduction (Helena Pedersen)
3:25-3:35: Bob Jickling paper presentation
3:35-3:45: Jason Wallin paper presentation
3:45-3:55: Nick Peim paper presentation
3:55-4:05: Short break
4:05-4:30: Keri Facer response & discussion with authors, the ESD Research Group/editorial team, and seminar participants
4:30-4:55: What next? Discussion questions (Keri Facer, authors & all):
– What urgent future research trajectories do we see for Education for sustainable development in the Anthro-Capitalocene?
– What does the Anthropo-Capitalocene mean for educational practice? “As educators, working within these multiple tipping points, where do we stand?” (Do we still believe in education?)
4:55-5:00: Wrapping up & closing of seminar (Helena Pedersen)
On 8 February 2022 SPARK the Movement organizes an interactive online meeting with regional, national and European educators around the question:
How can we mobilize the imaginative power of the region, thus learning together how to take up global challenges and focus on the local impact we can make?
SPARK’s conviction is that sustainability needs to be a part of the ‘everyday fabric of life’. The scale of a region seems to be a most suitable level to examine and enact sustainability in day-to-day life and in everyday business. The meeting is organised by United Nation’s supported Regional Centre of Expertise ‘Fryslan’ in The Netherlands. I will give a short introduction to the Whole School Approach as a key driver of sustainability.
Anyone can join but you need to sign up here: https://sparkthemovement.nl/programma/
PROGRAMME
Transformative learning 