Events
Webinar: Re-imagining Education for Sustainable Development: Applying Utopia as Method
All are welcome to join us for a research webinar hosted by OLPD and featuring Dr. Elke Van dermijnsbrugge.
Event details:
In this provocation we will apply an imaginative approach to thinking and taking action called ‘utopia as method’ to re-imagine Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). We will work through the history of ESD, reflect on related values and principles, and imagine how you might engage differently with ESD, starting today. There will be time after the presentation for discussion.
December 3, 10:00am-11:30am US Central Time
Online via Zoom: register here
Presenter: Elke Van dermijnsbrugge
Host: Baiwen Peng, OLPD Doctoral Student, CIDE
Presenter Bio:
Dr. Elke Van dermijnsbrugge is a researcher at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Education from University College London, UK, and she is one of the co-convenors of the Anarchist Studies Network. She has worked in international schools in Asia and Africa, and has developed and taught in various international teacher training programmes for pre-service and in-service teachers. Her research is interdisciplinary, encompassing the educational field but spreading far beyond through links with philosophy, sociology and political theory. She focuses on the application of utopian and speculative thinking, the punk ethos and principles of self-organisation, mutual aid and solidarity to reimagine (educational) policy, research and practices to support collaborative, participatory, plural, just and imaginative futures.
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