In the guest lecture, "The Ruins of Education. A Guide for Residents and Tourists" Schaffar-Kronqvist will discuss how Western philosophy and knowledge formations have contributed to the current catastrophe in nature. However, she identifies some Western traditions that may contribute in the fight against climate change.
The Ruins of Education. A Guide for Residents and Tourists.
The highly educated, rich parts of the Nordic and Western countries, we, need to radically reflect on how our educational systems, practices and knowledge formations have contributed to the fact that humanity and life on earth are on the edge of a disaster. We, the ones who have profited from the damage that our ways of life have given rise to, need to find ways to act very concretely as soon as possible to break our own destructive ideological, political and behavioral patterns. Sadly, one part of these patterns has been to start acting only when our own lives are threatened.
We are living in our own ruins and we need to face and relate to them.
In the Western tradition of thought, there are many insights about how resistance, reflection and by this renewal is necessary and possible as an essential part of humanity’s ability of enlightenment. I will sketch some of these in order to provide a guide for us who are living in the ruins of education. Aware of the risk that my focus on “our own Western tradition” could only perpetuate the same destructive, colonial structures, my aim, however, is to point to the possibilities that are already inherent in our forms of (educational) lives.
The possibility of change might be closer at hand than it sometimes might seem.
Commenters
Ole Andreas Kvamme, associate professor at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research. Kvamme researches sustanability in education, and is a member of the research groups COSER (Challenges of Sustainability in Educational Research) and HumStud (Humanities Studies in Pedagogy).
Christian Andres Palacios Haugestad, PhD candidate in social psychology and member of the research group ECODISTURB. He researches human alienation from nature and how psychology might lay the groundwork for environmental engagement among youths.
Practical information
The lecture and comments will be in English.
The lecture is organized by the research group Humanities Studies in Pedagogy as part of a series of lectures on philosophy of education.
The lecture is open, no registration is required. Welcome!
Contact: Aurora Jacobsen Evenshaug