Imagining Education Futures Beyond the Human

Join us for the 12h meeting of the International Workshop on Environment, Sustainability, & Education 

Imagining Education Futures Beyond the Human

Speaker: Dr. Janna Goebel

Date: Wednesday June 9th, 2021

TIme: 9:30 AM EST

Register in advance for this workshop: http://bit.ly/ESE12Workshop2021

Education systems are implicated in the climate crisis. In this presentation, Dr. Goebel will highlight the intersections of education and climate justice by reconceptualizing education as learning through relationality with all that is ‘beyond’ the human. She will share findings from a 6-month ethnographic study of how families, schools, and the natural world are interconnected in a coffee-producing region of Brazil. Drawing on visual and audio data and using speculative fabulation in this presentation, Dr. Goebel will reframe and reimagine how learning through human-nature relationships matters in building more sustainable futures. 

Dr. Janna Goebel will be joining Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory as an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Education in the College of Global Futures’ School of Sustainability in the fall. Her scholarly work focuses on education’s role in responding to the climate crisis. Dr. Goebel’s recent and forthcoming publications explore childhoods and learning in the Anthropocene as well as the use of international large-scale assessments to measure education quality in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Goebel has taught students of all ages and from more than 35 countries in courses such as English, Writing, Economics of Education, and Education in the Anthropocene.