Narratives of Change for Sustainability: Transformative Encounters With and Across Texts, People, Places, and Events

• In Event: Re-Mediating Subject/Subject, Subject/Object Relations in Cultural Historical Research

Abstract

With the emergence of the Antropocene, education is called upon to transform traditional forms of teaching and learning towards more activist forms of engagement, where knowledge, action, and the transformation of society come closer together. In such environments, new ways of making sense of what it means being and acting in the world can emerge in what we refer to as narratives of change. The current paper aims to contribute new insights into students’ and teachers’ sense making as part of their engagement towards action for sustainability in open schooling learning environments. The results show how students participate in personal challenges and share their experiences as they draw intertextual connections between multiple contexts of experience.

Authors

• Erik Knain, University of Oslo

• Alfredo Jornet Gil, University of Oslo

• Giulia Tasquier, University of Bologna

• Olivia Levrini, University of Bologna

• Linda Sygna, cChange