Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism
Join this seminar to hear Peter Sutoris exploring education practices in impoverished and marginal communities.
Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism
03 Nov 2022, 17:30 – 19:00
Education has never played as critical a role in determining humanity's future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind's unprecedented control over the natural environment.
Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project among schools and activist groups in India and South Africa, the speaker will explore education practices in the context of impoverished, marginal communities where environmental crises intersect with colonial and racist histories and unsustainable practices.
He exposes the depoliticising effects of schooling and examines cross-generational knowledge transfer within and beyond formal education. Finally, he calls for the bridging of schooling and environmental activism, to find answers to the global environmental crisis.
The seminar will be particularly useful for those interested in climate change and sustainability education.
This will be a hybrid event, run both online and in person.
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Peter Sutoris
Environmental Anthropologist and Assistant Professor in Education
University of York, UK
He is the author of 'Visions of Development' (Oxford University Press, 2016) and 'Educating for the Anthropocene' (MIT Press, 2022). His current research focuses on imagination of alternative environmental futures, cultures of degrowth and activist pedagogies.
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Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes