VIRTUAL EVENT: Social, transformative and sustainable learning in Jamaica

In this webinar, Romina De Angelis will share key outcomes of her doctoral research on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Jamaica, and reflect on how her findings could inform ESD both locally and globally.  

Her study explores the circumstances and challenges for sustainable learning in a school and community in Jamaica, which call attention to the need to bridge disconnects between sustainable learning in schools, in communities, and national and international unsustainable development policies.

ESD critical scholarship exhorts us to examine sustainable learning practices from specific contexts within developing countries, in order to (re)shape Global North-South relationships in more inclusive and participatory terms.

With the aim of exploring and highlighting these disconnects, and contributing to the improvement of sustainable learning pedagogies, Romina conducted an ethnographic exploration of social, transformative, and sustainable learning in a Jamaican school and community.

Understanding local sustainable learning experiences and their interrelations with the broader ESD context reveals insights that may help to envision more effective sustainable learning approaches within ESD in Jamaica and beyond. 

This event will be of particular interest to students, teachers and academics with an interest in education for sustainable development and transformative learning.

DERC seminar series 

The Development Education Research Centre (DERC) hosts a seminar series to examine new thinking and discussion on development education, global learning and global citizenship.

Links

• DERC seminar series
• Development Education Research Centre
• Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment