Book ID: CBB203858012

Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence (2022)

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Peter Sutoris (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 296
Language: English

Education has never played as critical a role in determining humanity's future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind's unprecedented control over the natural environment. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project among schools and activist groups in India and South Africa, Peter Sutoris explores education practices in the context of impoverished, marginal communities where environmental crises intersect with colonial and racist histories and unsustainable practices. He exposes the depoliticizing effects of schooling and examines cross-generational knowledge transfer within and beyond formal education. Finally, he calls for the bridging of schooling and environmental activism, to find answers to the global environmental crisis. The onset of the Anthropocene challenges the very definition of education and its fundamental goals, says Sutoris. Researchers must look outside conventional models and practices of education for inspiration if education is to live up to its responsibilities at this critical time. For decades, environmental activist movements in some countries have wrestled with questions of responsibility and action in the face of environmental destruction; they inhabited the mental world of the Anthropocene before much of the rest of the world. Sutoris highlights an innovative research methodology of participatory observational filmmaking, describing how films made by children in the Indian and South African communities provide a window into the ways that young people make sense of the future of the Anthropocene. It is through their capacity to imagine the world differently, Sutoris argues, that education can reinvent itself.

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Authors & Contributors
Kristen Wehner
Elaine Gan
Paul G. Keil
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Heather Anne Swanson
Lai, Franco
Concepts
Anthropocene
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Environmental degradation
Environmental history
Climate change
Science and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
India
South Africa
Nigeria
Japan
Bhopal, India
Laos
Institutions
Disaster Management Institute (Bhopal India)
World Bank
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