Towards an emergent curriculum for climate justice adult educators/activists
"Ecoliteracy is essential for adult educators/activists en route to creating ecoliterate populations. Working cooperatively with other networks in the spirit of a 'solidarity economy', a group within the PIMA network has run a climate justice education programme through a series of webinars. We describe and analyse a case story of an emergent climate justice curriculum in action. We use an ecofeminist analysis to understand the relational entanglement of ecological breakdown, capitalism, colonialism, racism and patriarchy which in part undergird the breaching of planetary boundaries. We identify five inquiry-based themes which are suggestive as coordinates for orientating curricula for adult educators/activists learning climate justice. One of these is the importance of building ecoliterate alliances through collaborative action as we face the 'socio-ecological hurricane' which is bearing down".
Organisation University of the Western Cape, South Africa | Transformative Learning Center, Cabrillo College, California | realife learning, Bristol, UK | University of Victoria, Canada
Author Shirley Walters , Astrid von Kotze, Joy K.P. O’Neil Jane Burt, Colette February, Darlene Clover
Publication Date 3 November 2022
Topic Ecological crisis
Region Global
Sector Civil society organisation / NGO
Type Article