Tuesday, November 12. 9:00am Pacific STANDARD time
Guest speakers: Alfredo Jornet (University of Girona) and Antti Rajala (University of Neuchatel)
Dear Colleagues
You are invited to a culturalpraxis.net coffee hour on a topic of special concern: how to prepare new generations to deal with the crisis of climate change. Readings for this session are attached.
The available scientific evidence shows that, unless urgent and drastic action is taken, critical tipping points in the climate and the ecosystems that support human civilization may be crossed within our students’ lifetimes. In such a historical conjuncture, teaching and learning about sustainability can hardly be disentangled from affectivity and hope. What is our role as science educators when we teach about climate change at a time in which the window to a safe future is closing? What sort of dialogical spaces can we create that shall allow students to approach the climate crisis as a subject matter while preserving their political agency and hope? In this session, Alfredo and Antti will discuss how critical cultural historical perspectives inform their work in generating and investigating school-community collaborations to address issues of climate and environmental injustice.
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98564124237
Meeting ID: 985 6412 4237
Passcode: Vygotsky
Readings:
Session recording:
For chat discussion, see here.
Thank you, Alfredo Jornet, for highlighting how the climate crisis demosnstrates that precariousness is an inherent condition for all human beings, from which clear political demands emerge.
And thank you, Antti Rajala, for clrifying several benefits experienced by students from participating in discussion of environmental action projects, notably
. an opportunity to retink one’s persopnal relationship with the climate crisis, and
. an expanson of prespectives on environmental action
I hope you are right in surmising that the latter will contribute to
. overcoming polarization,
which seems to me the greatest challenge for humanity at this moment in our history.
Only through negotiation of common ground in concrete interpersonal interactions is there hope for an escape route from our current global catastrophe.
RS
I am uploading the video response to this event on behalf of Andy Blunden, who is in Australia and was unable to join the meeting due to the time zone difference. https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/vB8D43cuqwUHntUGnc7Hvz5HxSfQuoKBvUpSc1Wr7TARy5FDZ38gj78s9lWQNkW8TPp4beZ11Ewu8i1Y.rfCYWFBjRJTq9Z1Q
You can access Andy’s paper on “Transferring’ formal knowledge to the workplace and life outside school,“ which also includes a discussion of environmental education here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-jelPT8wiTUJAtwZmnU0I-auUluvEkkM/view?usp=sharing