FreshEd #144 – Climate Change, Education, and Sustainability (Arjen Wals)

What’s the connection between education and climate change? My guest today, Arjen Wals, takes a critical take on sustainability yet offers a hopeful outlook. In our conversation, Arjen details a few examples of school-level practices that could be seen as working towards a sustainable future while also critiques educational competition and the hidden curriculum of commodification. He ultimately calls for more dissonance in education systems as a way to learn new forms of sustainability to combat climate change. Arjen Wals is the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development and Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. I spoke with Prof. Wals at the 2018 Global Education Meeting, which was a high-level forum held in Brussels in early December that reviewed the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. www.freshedpodcast.com/arjenwals/ email: info@freshedpodcast.com twitter: @freshedpodcast