Educating for a Just Ecological Transition: Building Higher Educational Alliances in a Time of Climate Crisis
A Virtual Summit: March-May, 2021
Haverford College
The virtual summit “Educating for a Just Ecological Transition: Building Higher Educational Alliances in a Time of Climate Crisis” engages emerging responses to the climate crisis in higher education—with particular attention to the roles higher education institutions can play in building alliances with social movements, community organizations, artists, intellectuals, and informal educational structures. How can advocacy around climate justice respond to broader questions about inequalities of power? How should institutions of higher education act on their responsibilities to address the climate crisis through curricula, infrastructure, and institutional action? How can higher education institutions learn from, partner with, and provide resources for community organizations and educational programs?
Contact: Joshua Moses - jmoses@haverford.edu & Laura McGrane - lmcgrane@haverford.edu
Full schedule and RSVP at hav.to/7un
Session 1: Ecological Transitions: Implications for Higher Education
Thursday, March 4
2:00-4:00 p.m. EST
From the Pandemic to white supremacy, to the climate crisis, to inequality and large-scale economic shifts, it is ever increasingly clear that we require not only new pedagogies but a radical rethinking of institutional forms in higher education. This session will introduce our seminar’s overall themes and consider the implications of cascading crises on the role of higher education and its relationships to wider society.
Organized by Education Ecologies Collective. Sponsored by the Leaves of Grass Foundation, the John. B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, VCAM, and the Department of Environmental Studies at Haverford College.