Thursday, 2 November, 2023 – 16:00
This short webinar will feature a presentation from members of the JustEd (‘Education as and for Epistemic, Environmental and Transitional Justice to enable Sustainable Development’) project team, detailing the particulars of the research project as well as the chief output: a practical guide to embedding a justice approach in secondary education.
Outline
In today’s world, where environmental issues, inequalities, conflicts, and climate change are increasing rapidly, the need for a justice approach to education has become more critical than ever before. This presentation aims to introduce the academics, teacher educators, teachers and practitioners with the JustEd project which focuses on equipping young people with a deep understanding of environmental, epistemic and transitional injustices and empower them to take active positions in creating a more just, equitable, healthy and sustainable society. It also aims to introduce “a practical guide for teachers and teacher educators for embedding a justice approach in secondary education”.
JustEd: ‘Education as and for Epistemic, Environmental and Transitional Justice to enable Sustainable Development’ is a research project that ran from 2020-2023, funded by the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund, led by researchers from the University of Bath (UK), Group for the Analysis of Development (Peru), Gulu University (Uganda), Tribhuvan University (Nepal) and the University of Bristol (UK). Through mixed-methods research design, policy, secondary school curricula, pedagogy, young people’s experiences and their intended actions related to the SDGs in Peru, Nepal and Uganda is analysed in the project.
This project presents a justice approach to education that enables young people to recognize and respond to environmental degradation, climate crises, social injustices, discrimination, conflicts and violence. It aims to give marginalized individuals and communities a voice, encourage questioning of existing inequalities, and promote critical consciousness regarding issues such as racism, violence, and poverty. It also aims to support teachers to encourage young people to make choices that will help to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, for example to take action around climate change (SDG13), to help reduce inequalities (SDG10) and to promote peace and justice (SDG16).
In this webinar, first, the project members will provide an overview of a justice approach to education by introducing “a practical guide for teachers and teacher educators for embedding a justice approach in secondary
ducation”. Then, they will explain the key concepts of environmental, epistemic and transitional justice and how they can be integrated into teaching. After summarising the six pedagogical dimensions and illustrating how they can be put into practice, they will recommend activities that can be used to integrate a justice approach to teaching. Finally, the Ugandan team will express their perspectives about the project.
Link to the project: https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/justed/
Intended audience
Academics, researchers, teacher educators and teachers, and policy makers.
Speakers
- Nese Soysal is a Post-doctoral Research Associate of Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK.
- Lizzi Milligan is a Professor of Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK and the Principal Investigator of the JustEd Project.
- Expedito Nuwategeka is a Lecturer in Geography Department at Gulu University, Uganda.
- Tina Aciro, Faculty of Education and Humanities, Gulu University, Uganda.