Internationalization in International Schools
Internationalization in International Schools
Internationalization in International Schools
Internationalization in International Schools
Climate Education beyond COP26
Climate Education beyond COP26
UNESCO’s Futures of Education Report
Education for Peace and Human Rights
Education for Peace and Human Rights
Less is More
Citizenship Education in Lebanon
Unpacking School Internationalization
Reimagining the dream
What’s the connection between education and climate change? My guest today, Arjen Wals, takes a critical take on sustainability yet offers a hopeful outlook.
In our conversation, Arjen details a few examples of school-level practices that could be seen as working towards a sustainable future while also critiques educational competition and the hidden curriculum of commodification.
He ultimately calls for more dissonance in education systems as a way to learn new forms of sustainability to combat climate change.
Arjen Wals is the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development and Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability at Wageningen University in The Netherlands.
I spoke with Prof. Wals at the 2018 Global Education Meeting, which was a high-level forum held in Brussels in early December that reviewed the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Citation: Wals, Arjen, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 144, podcast audio, January 14, 2019. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/arjenwals/
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Climate Change, Education, and Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goal 4 is all about education. Under the goal, there are seven targets, ranging from providing equitable access to education worldwide to making sure students have relevant skills for the future. The most revolutionary yet incredibly complex indicator is 4.7.
My guest today, Aaron Benavot, takes us through the history of target 4.7. How did the international community agree on such a revolutionary target?
Aaron warns us about the future of the target given there is no consensus on how to measure it across countries.
Aaron Benavot is a Professor in the department of educational policy and leadership at the school of education, University at Albany, State University of New York. He was previously the Director of the Global Education Monitoring report.
Citation: Benavot, Aaron, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 141, podcast audio, December 24, 2018. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/benavot/
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The past and future of SDG 4.7