Launch Event: Education in Times of Climate Change

Launch Event: Education in Times of Climate Change

When

6 Oct 2022    
3:00pm - 4:30pm

Event Type

Book Launch Panel

6 October 2022, 15:00-16:30 BST

NORRAG is organising a launch event for the seventh edition of NORRAG Special Issue (NSI) entitled “Education in Times of Climate Change”.

Climate change is not a new issue for education, but new levels of consensus and concern are emerging, suggesting that new policy developments may follow. This NORRAG Special Issue (NSI 07) addresses the question of how education is to equip learners to participate in climate action that would fundamentally disrupt existing problematic systems. This NSI has the potential to inform pedagogical praxis, co-learning, curriculum, climate action, policy formulation, frameworks for evaluating success, resourcing decisions and what we might consider educative acts for engaging with climate change and its multi dimensional uncertainties, risks and opportunities.

About the event

The two guest editors, Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka and Professor Eureta Rosenberg from the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University (South Africa), will introduce and then moderate a panel including seven authors of articles in NSI 07. This launch highlights some of the global and national perspectives in NSI 07, and gives participants the opportunity to pose questions to these experts.

The launch event, which takes place online, is oriented towards researchers, policymakers, practitioners and advocates who are interested and engaged in education broadly, and education and climate change specifically.

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Agenda

Welcome

  • Dr Moira V. Faul, Executive Director, NORRAG, Switzerland

Introduction

  • Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University

Panel discussion with Q&A session

  • Professor John Holmberg, UNESCO Chair in Education for Sustainable Development, Sweden
  • Professor Rosa Guadalupe Mendoza Zuany, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
  • Professor Aaron Benavot, University of Albany-SUNY, USA
  • Dr Justin Lupele, Beehive Associates, Zambia
  • Mr Sidney Muhangi, Rhodes University and visiting scholar at University of Nottingham, South Africa
  • Dr Christina Kwauk, Kwauk and Associates and fellow at the Centre for Universal Education, USA
  • Dr Sarah Van Borek, Rhodes University, South Africa

Moderator

  • Professor Eureta Rosenberg, Environmental Learning Research Centre Rhodes University,
    South Africa

Closing 

  • Dr Moira V. Faul, Executive Director, NORRAG, Switzerland

AGENDA

About NSI 07

Climate change is not a new issue for education, but new levels of consensus and concern are emerging, suggesting that new policy developments may follow, with hopefully a stronger connection to the educational opportunities, challenges and inequalities around the world and in particular in the Global South. Just how this is to be done in education at all levels, is not always clear. Educators in diverse fields need to do and share a deeper analysis of climate change education needs around the world quite urgently in order to inform policy formulation, the evaluation frameworks for success, and resourcing decisions.

NSI 07 English edition consists of 28 articles written by 75 authors from 22 countries in all continents, which aim to highlight global and national-level experiences and voices. Perspectives are included from young scholars, early career educationists and development practitioners, as well as internationally renowned practitioners and academics who have devoted their careers to sustainability and educational change.The Special Issue is composed of eight sections:

  • Part 1: Overview Perspectives
  • Part 2: Expanding Learning and Agency Across Boundaries
  • Part 3: Transforming Learning, Activism and Relating
  • Part 4: Engaging Diverse Knowledges in Climate Change Response
  • Part 5: Young People and the Call for Climate Action
  • Part 6: Children’s Voices in Climate Action
  • Part 7: Transforming Higher Education for Sustainable Futures
  • Part 8: Inclusive, Responsive Educational Transformations in Service of Sustainable Futures

To familiarise yourself with the content of NSI 07 prior to its launch, please have a look at the table of contents at the link below.

TABLE OF CONTENTS