The Armageddon Club: Educating for the Future of Humanity — Educating Toward Equitable Futures 2

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The Corona Crisis has overshadowed the global protest movements such as Greta Thunbergs´ School Strike for the Climate and Extinction rebellion. Both show the multiple crisis and possible collapse of our civilization (Besley & Peters 2019:1). Academic research shows the clear facts of an anthropocenic climate heating. This leads to reflecting on the challenges and needs for education in general and for organizational education, too. ´ As civilizational collapse is possible, we need to ask, whether the present global modern civilization be able to learn from the past civilization collapses? As education has to prepare generations to the future challenges, the symposium part II reflects on educational systems and strategies towards educating for the Future of Humanity.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• Arjen E. Wals, Wageningen University

Papers

• Life and Death in the Anthropocene - Tina Besley, Beijing Normal University

• Going With the Flow or Against the Grain: Transgressive Learning and Disruptive Capacity-Building in a Time of Global Systemic Dysfunction - Arjen E. Wals, Wageningen University

• Toward Regional Circuits. Attitude Transformation of Regional Stakeholders: Transgressive Organizational Educational Professionalization - Tobias Klös, Philipps-University Marburg

• Organizing Equity Toward a Democratic Economy: Movement Organizations as Discourse Actors in the Open Laboratory Society - Funda Hülagü Demirbilek; Susanne Maria Weber, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Discussant

• Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University