Sustainability Education Across the Lifespan
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 366
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2. School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
Interests: sustainability education; natural resource management; sustainable consumption; indigenous knowledge and stewardship
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Interests: intergenerational learning; youth music and arts engagement; multimodal literacies and digital technologies; music psychology (life course learning, development, and wellbeing); intercultural learning and creative collaborations; social justice education; educational leadership in international contexts
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability education is changing at a rapid pace in the context of a world experiencing increased disruption due to climate change, inequalities, and the understood interdependecies of social and ecological systems. From the advent of greater environmental awareness and international dialogue about sustainable development in the 1960s, the vast majority of people on the planet today have grown up with formal or informal education about sustainability. As Wals et al (2017: 71) have argued, educators “need strategies for anticipatory engagement with changing socio-ecological realities–both in the present and future–in order to be effective within their various embodied contexts”.
This Special Issue will feature articles that address how we can imagine and implement sustainability education across the lifespan, and at particular important junctures in the lifespan and within relational geographies of place and space. We seek articles that argue for, describe, and report the effectiveness of sustainability education that fosters continuing education about anthropocene realities; interdependencies with other social, economic, and environmental changes; possible solutions and improvements of how humans live and thrive within their ecological limits and repair damage done, and invites community that supports adaptation and resilience. This Special Issue will supplement the current literature on sustainability education by addressing the clear need to imagine sustainability education across the lifespan, from cradle to grave, to foster understanding, responsibility, hope, and courage for all ages to have their role in building a better world.
Reference:
Wals, Arjen E.J; Joseph Weakland; Peter Blaze Corcoran. Preparing for the Ecocene: Envisioning futures for environment and sustainability education. Japanese Journal of Environmental Education 2017, 26, 71–76.
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Prof. Dr. Naomi T. Krogman
Prof. Dr. Susan A. O’Neill
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- lifelong education
- resilience
- intergenerational learning
- climate change crisis
- transformative education
- lifelong learning
- ecological systems
- environmental education
- relational geographies
- human flourishing
- social justice education
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