Dunlop, Lynda;
Rushton, Elizabeth AC;
Atkinson, Lucy;
Ayre, Jacquie;
Bullivant, Andrea;
Essex, Jane;
Price, Laura;
... Wood, Lucy; + view all
(2022)
Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co-created manifesto.
British Educational Research Journal
10.1002/berj.3803.
(In press).
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Abstract
What would it mean to put environmental sustainability at the heart of education? This article describes a process of inclusive, participatory manifesto-making to identify young people's (aged 16–18 years) and teachers' priorities for education for environmental sustainability across the UK. Drawing on analysis of qualitative data from over 200 teachers and young people who participated in futures and visualisation workshops, we identify key educational priorities at the levels of classroom, school, community and policy, based on consensus between teacher and youth perspectives. Whilst consensus-seeking comes with a risk of favouring ‘soft’ actions which reinforce unsustainable practices and systems, the process of identifying more desirable futures and immediate barriers that must be negotiated to reach them has the potential to create spaces for more critical pedagogies and practices. There is a need for policy makers and school leaders to recognise the interests of teachers and young people to enable greater participation in decision making at different scales, and to ensure that those with the greatest capacity bear their burden of responsibility for education for environmental sustainability.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co-created manifesto |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/berj.3803 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3803 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | environment, sustainability, teachers, youth |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146966 |
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