Tannock, Stuart;
(2025)
On education and degrowth.
British Journal of Sociology of Education
10.1080/01425692.2025.2475957.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article addresses the significance of degrowth for education as a social institution and field of practice in the context of the climate crisis and need to develop a powerful climate justice movement. Drawing on a close reading of the degrowth and education literature, the article argues against claims made by some degrowth advocates that degrowth should be adopted as an overarching frame for social and educational reform. Instead, it suggests that degrowth offers a set of powerful questions, critiques, perspectives and proposals that are vital to address in current projects to rethink and rework education in the context of the climate crisis. These include discussions of good and bad forms of growth and degrowth; links between economic growth discourses and ideologies of individual social mobility; and the importance of using education to foster collective, structural responses and not just individualized actions for tackling the global climate crisis.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | On education and degrowth |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01425692.2025.2475957 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2475957 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Climate crisis; critical pedagogy; degrowth; radical education; political ecology; political economy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education 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 - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205756 |
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