Cultures of Hope in Education for Sustainability: A Case Study on a Schools' Deliberate Approach to Emotion

• In Event: Centering and Enacting Dynamic Cultural Practices in Learning and Development

Abstract

There is an increasing consensus among educators and policy makers that young people need to be better prepared for living in and contributing to more sustainable and socially just societies. What this entails practically and emotionally, however, remains an empirical question. In this study, we examine the work that a team of teachers, school leaders, and students at an upper secondary school in Norway perform to deliberately address socio-emotional needs emerging as pat of an open-schooling project addressing local sustainability challenges. Taking a sociocultural approach to human emotions, we study how a culture aimed at supporting awareness and management of emotions and hope emerges as the team’s practical activity generates new narratives, tools, and personal and inter-personal orientations towards emotions.

Authors

• Hanna Røkenes

• Alfredo Jornet Gil, University of Oslo