Learning and Teaching the Anthropocene

Beschreibung

With its quest to reassess the interrelation between humankind and nature, the Anthropocene is both a geological and a cultural concept. This dual function demands an transdisciplinary approach to link sciences and humanities, and it can provide a fruitful framework for education, to learn about and reflect upon the culture-nature interdependencies.
Education for and in the Anthropocene needs an integrated education across subjects and across the curriculum. How does learning and teaching need to be designed to meet young people’s interest in shaping a sustainable future? How can the Anthropocene serve as a framework to initiate transformative learning? What forms of innovative knowledge communication serve best to enable future literacy?
This lecture does not focus on the subject-related contents of an Anthropocene curriculum. It provides a survey of educational models which have the potential to meet the key demands of knowledge transmission in this new epoch, like interdisciplinarity, participation, place-based first hand experience, reflection of social, cultural and ethical values, understanding complexities, designing solutions, glocal thinking, collaboration. We reflect upon the issues learning environments and teaching materials should consider when designed within the framework of the Anthropocene concept. Best practice examples serve to exemplify how to integrate the Anthropocene in tertiary education as well as in learning and teaching on secondary and primary levels.

Zeitraum	8 Juni 2021
Ereignistitel	Online-Ringvorlesung Anthropozän – Anthropocene
Veranstaltungstyp	Vortragsreihe, Kolloquium
Ort	Wien, ÖsterreichAuf Karte anzeigen
Bekanntheitsgrad	International