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Scientific research network 'Public pedagogy and sustainability challenges'

 

In this network, researchers at Ghent University (BE), University of Leuven (BE), Södertörn University (SE), University of Gdańsk (PO), Uppsala University (SE), Aarhus University (DK), Örebro University (SE), Maynooth University (IR) and Rhodes University (SA) share a scientific research interest in the relation between education and societal transformation. They want to deepen and widen our understanding of the public role of education in the face of sustainability challenges, nourish and facilitate further theoretical and empirical research and foster much-needed interdisciplinary collaboration of political theorists, educational theorists and sustainability education researchers.

Through the organisation of symposia, guest lectures and scientific collaboration the network develops a theory of public pedagogy with a focus on sustainability challenges and addresses – both theoretically and empirically – questions such as:

  • How can education play a democratic role in addressing sustainability challenges?
  • What are vital conditions or obstacles to make this possible?
  • What does this imply for designing sustainability education practices?
  • What are the theoretical, methodological and empirical implications of researching sustainability education as public pedagogy?

The project is funded as a scientific research network (FWO-WOG) by Research Foundation - Flanders.

Partners:

  • Ghent University: Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Political Sciences (Thomas Block, Katrien Van Poeck, Gert Goeminne, Erik Paredis, Maarten Crivits) & Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy (Griet Roets)
  • University of Leuven: Laboratory for Education and Society (Jan Masschelein, Maarten Simons, Danny Wildemeesch, Joke Vandenabeele)
  • Södertörn University: Pedagogik (Elisabet Langmann, Lovisa Bergdahl)
  • Maynooth University: Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy (Carl Anders Säfström)
  • University of Gdańsk: Department of Philosophy of Education and Cultural Studies (Tomasz Szkudlarek)
  • Uppsala University: Department of Education, Studies of Meaning-making in Educational Discourse (Leif Östman, Stefan Bengtsson, David Kronlid, Petra Hansson, Michael Håkansson)
  • Aarhus University: Danish School of Education - Educating for Viable Futures (Jeppe Læssøe, Monica Carlsson, Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard)
  • Örebro University: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences; Department of Education; SMED research group (Johan Öhman, Erik Andersson, Louise Sund)
  • Rhodes University: Environmental Learning Research Centre (Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rob O’Donoghue, Tshandaphiwe Fumo)

Deze Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksgemeenschap brengt onderzoekers bij elkaar uit de politieke wetenschappen, pedagogische wetenschappen en duurzaamheidseducatieonderzoek met een gedeelde focus op de relatie tussen educatie en maatschappelijke verandering. Hun interdisciplinaire samenwerking en dialoog is gericht op een beter begrip van de publieke rol van educatie in het licht van duurzaamheidsuitdagingen en op het stimuleren van verder theoretisch en empirisch onderzoek daarover.

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