3 March, 15:00-16:30 GMT
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With Boris Kilgarriff and Guarav Thapa
Organised by the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex.
Over the past decade, public awareness and political engagement with Nepal’s climate vulnerability have risen in correlation with the increasing frequency and severity of environmental disasters within Nepal. Despite growing recognition that a long-term educational approach is required to prepare Nepal’s population for an uncertain future, in 2020, the secondary-level school subject ‘Health, Population and Environment’ was removed from the compulsory curriculum and made an optional module available for Grades 9-12. This decision can be understood as part of Nepal’s current national education strategy, as outlined in the 2015 Constitution, which emphasises decentralisation of education policy. In theory, this gives local schools and municipal governments scope to develop their own curricula emphasising local environmental factors.
This presentation explores how decentralisation has led to the reproduction of inequalities within education provision, particularly within the field of environment education, and tentatively suggests steps towards a more equitable approach. Itx explores possibilities for future collaborations that might deepen democratic processes of local knowledge conservation within schools.