Education for Sustainability Learning Pod

In this episode Dr Beverley Goring talks about the many representations of equality, which is a central concept in EfS.

Dr Glenn Strachan provides a brief overview of the IPPC report (www.ipcc.ch) and highlights the role of Education in mitigating and adapting to climate change. This episode relates to Module 3 Learning and Climate Change: the sustainability revolution.

Dr Rolf Jucker, an alumnus of the Education for Sustainability Masters course, is interviewed about his latest book by Dr Glenn Strachan. The book called ‘Can We Cope with the Complexity of Reality’ analyses the reasons behind some of the crises facing humanity and why people find it difficult to confront these crises and change their behaviours. The discussion covers Dr Jucker’s learning journey in relation to writing the book, as well as key themes such the challenge of achieving a trans-disciplinary perspective on reality, the importance of an evidence-based approach to knowledge and education, the need to reinvent democracy and a critical look at education for sustainable development. Dr Jucker emphasises in particular the need to acknowledge the limits to human perception and cognition and discusses how this impacts on finding sound solutions to complex sustainability problems.

Dr Beverley Goring introduces two key concepts in Module 2 of the EfS MSc