Education for Ecological and Social Justice

Catalog description

While social justice education importantly focuses on power dynamics, intercultural conviviality and action for social change, its predominant emphasis on the 'social' sphere risks overlooking the embeddedness of human systems within ecological systems. At the same time, analyzing environmental issues through a social justice lens allows for deeper examination of their human dimensions and unequal impacts. Any environmental education that looks to be truly sustainable, inclusive and momentous must incorporate principles of social justice into the curricular vision and pedagogical approach. This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine social and environmental issues in education globally. Explores how current world events and the climate crisis intersect with socio-ecological concerns. Prepares emerging scholars to address complex, real-world problems through a holistic justice-oriented perspective.