Children Citizenship and Environment: Nurturing a democratic imagination in a changing world
- When?
- Thursday 25 October 2012, 13.00 hrs to 14.00 hrs
- Where?
- 45A AZ 04
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Dr Bronwyn Hayward, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Canterbury NZ and Visiting Researcher Sustainable Life Styles Research Group /CES, University of Surrey.
- Admission price:
- No charge
Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere, there is also a strong, youthful energy for change.
This discussion sets out a new agenda for both citizenship and environmental education which reflects the responsibility and opportunities facing educators, researchers, parents and community groups to support young citizens as they learn to think critically, and act with creative resistance and social agency to 'make a difference' on the issues that concern them.
We have become used to thinking about our environmental impact as our ecological footprint-but what of our citizenship impact? What kind of citizenship are we modeling, or 'social handprint' are we leaving behind for our children and future generations?
· The FEARS Handprint of Authoritarianism?
· The SMART Handprint of thin Environmentalism? or
· The SEEDS of a new Ecological Handprint ?
Half the author royalties are donated to projects to help children in poverty after the devastating series of earthquakes in Bronwyn's home town of Christchurch New Zealand
More information about the book can be found here http://tandf.msgfocus.com/q/1oU8tBVAET1LJ/wv