14.044-23 - Emerging Perspectives on Critical Policy Research in Sustainability Education

• In Event: 14.044 - Roundtable Session 2

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The proposed session explores the role of critical policy studies in sustainability education research, and in particular focuses on emerging research on the large, decentralized education states of India, Brazil, and Canada. This session responds to a call to strengthen policy research in sustainability education, where there is a need for more studies that move beyond analysis of policy texts to also consider policy development, enactment, and other broader aspects of the policy process. From this holistic perspective, the proposed session offers discussion of the processes involved in sustainability policy development, the relationship between the development of particular texts and larger discursive formations, and the situated enactments of policy by administrators, teachers, and other practitioners in applied contexts.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Marcia McKenzie, University of Saskatchewan

Papers

• Environmental and Sustainability Education Policy Research: A Review of Geographic and Thematic Trends Over Time - Kathleen Aikens, University of Saskatchewan; Jeppe Laessoe, Aarhus University - School of Education

• Tensions Between Local Implementation of Public Policies and National Policies of Environmental Education in Brazil in a Critical Perspective - Valéria Ghisloti Iared; Haydée Torres Oliveira

• Enabling and Constraining Factors That Influence the Implementation of Environmental Education Policy Reforms in India - Sylvia Christine Almeida, Monash University

• Critical Inquiry on Sustainability and Education Policy Across Canada - Andrew Bieler, University of Saskatchewan