Learning, teaching and getting organized when the world is on fire
In 2024, we started a co-research process on Ecosocial Education, with a year-long series of online fora to talk about different initiatives, strategies and methodologies for bringing ecosocial education into schools and curricula. Having concluded this round of fora, gathered a lot of knowledge and built a network as well as core group of people in different places, we’ve now shifted into a second year and phase.
Across our network – made up of local nodes in the Eastern Mediterranean, German speaking countries, Iberian Peninsula, British Isles and South Africa – we’re working on a guide that brings together different regional meanings, tactics, strategies, tools and methodologies for ecosocial education, working from and with local-regional realities and situations. Our work is translocal as well as transversal: we also bridge knowledges and efforts across different educator, parent, edu-activist and edu-institutional levels, laying out pathways into ecosocial education for everyone.
We focus on public or grassroots-based education and on primary and secondary levels mostly. Our process opens and closes to general participation as we move through different phases of this work – you can watch videos of our online fora below, send us an email, and keep looking here for updates as well as different versions of our guide. Our process will run until at least 2026, and is a cooperation with the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking (CAPE) of Copenhagen University.
This was our 2024 calendar:
FORUM 1 – 25 Jan, 6.30pm – 8.15pm CET – Making a Climate Education Guide and Curriculum. Edulater (CAT/ES) watch the recording here
LAB 1 – 15 February, 6-8pm CET – Eco-social Education Lab 1
FORUM 2 – 29 February, 6.30pm – 8.15pm CET – Student-led Environmental Research, with Stepwise (CA/GR/UK)
FORUM 3 – 21 March, 6.30pm – 8.15pm CET – Struggles to change the Curriculum: Campaigning, Institutional and Policy Work. Experiences from Austria, Turkey and South Africa
FORUM – 18 April, 6.30 – 8.15pm – POSTPONED
FORUM 4 – 2 May, 6.30-8.15pm CET – Teacher Training for Eco-social Education
FORUM 5 – 23 May, 6.3-8.15pm CET – Positionality, Privilege and how we avoid Patronizing in Eco-Social Education
FORUM 6 -27 June, 6.30-8.15pm CET – Parent’s perspectives and strategies for eco-social education: mutual aid clinic
LAB 2 – 2 July, 6-8pm CET – Towards a common resource for Eco-social Education
Ecosocial Education Gathering and Assembly – 19-22 September 2024 in Vienna, Austria (email us to find out more)
This project is run by Common Ecologies, in cooperation with the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking (CAPE) at Copenhagen University, and collaborating with Casa dels Futurs Barcelona as well as other groups/organizations.