Event information

Ecopedagogy to Counter (Super) Wicked Problems in Higher Education - Transdisciplinarity, (post)Criticality, and Epistemological Diversity 

Thursday 23rd January 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (GMT)

This event is hosted by the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum

Venue – In-person at School of Education, 35 Berkeley Square

Registration 

Please direct any enquiries about this event to the TLC co-chairs. Their contact details can be found on the TLC webpage.

 

About the event

Ecopedagogical teaching focuses on unveiling the politics of human acts of environmental violence that are inherently connected to social injustices and planetary unsustainability. Ecopedagogies are reinventions of Paulo Freire's literacy work on teaching to read the word to read the world. Ecopedagogues widen literacy education for critically reading the world as part of Earth – i.e., ecopedagogical literacies. For example, ecopedagogical reading includes critical unpacking of how language and linguistics of "environmentalism" often justifies dominant forms of ‘development’ and ‘sustainability’ that leads to oppressive othering and dominance. Teaching for such forms of Development* perversely justifies socio-historical oppressions (e.g., coloniality, racism, citizen:non-citizen, patriarchy, heteronormativity, Northern epistemological supremacy) and dominance over the rest of Nature.

This lecture will focus on how ecopedagogical teaching and research are essential for praxis to disrupt (super)wicked environmental problems, with special foci on its transdisciplinarity, (post) criticality, and epistemological diverse foundations. Dr. Misiaszek will also discuss why non-critical (environmental) pedagogies fail to enact needed socio-environmental transformation and frequently result in anti-environmental results.