Building the World Anew: Historically-Responsive Educational Approaches Towards just and Sustainable Climate Futures

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The climate crisis is here, but so are the solutions. This panel brings together scholars working across a range of disciplines and geographies who are partnering with youth, educators, and communities to engage in the collaborative work of redefining and reshaping socio-ecological relations. Collectively, they draw on a variety of frameworks to re-member and revitalize the historically-contingent everyday practices, knowledge systems, lifeways, and movements of diverse communities as integral to the work of climate futuring. These projects serve as models for educational pursuits that not only contest the systems of oppression driving climate catastrophe and its inequitable impacts; they also work to prefigure more just, sustainable, and thriving futures by opening up new forms of world-building activity in the here-and-now.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Christina Hewko, Stanford University

Participants

• Christopher Jadallah, University of California - Los Angeles

• Michelle Hernandez Romero, University of California - Los Angeles

• Lauren Arzaga Daus, University of California - Los Angeles

• Sara Jasmin Diaz-Montejano, University of California - Los Angeles

• Ananda M. Marin, University of California - Los Angeles

• Sara E. Tolbert, Monash University

• Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto - OISE

• Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Meixi *, University of Minnesota