Environmental Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene Collective
Witnessing, Researching and Educating
By Professor Karen Malone Introduction Ursula Le Guin writes "It's up to authors to spark the imagination of their readers and to help them envision alternatives to how we live." She reminds us our writing is both warning and promise and it is never innocent. When we write, we have a responsibility to envision possibilities, …
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Author Professor Karen Malone Introduction Many would argue we reside in a disenchanted world, stories of disasters, wars, ecological degradation weigh heavily on many. None more so than children and young people who have across the world expressed their shared despair and grief at the state of the planet. They feel this pain and anxiety …
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Author Professor Karen Malone What kinds of worlds is educational research helping to create? What kinds of worlds might we need to learn to live within? We are living in the Anthropocene - a time of overlapping crises, climate instability, technological acceleration, social inequity, war insecurity, and these are not external to education. They are …
Author: Professor Karen Malone, Snapshot of Presentations given at the University of OsloMET and University of Gothenberg (May 2023), University of Oulu and University of Helsinki (October 2023). We need to look after our planet or otherwise, otherwise it will die. Like koalas, animals, us. Us we will die. Animals will die. Everyone will die. …
Environmental Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene Collective 