Our Ecojustice & Sustainability Education program focuses on four strands: social justice, ecotechnologies, aethestics, and experiential learning.
Explore the themes, and related posts below:
(descriptions from the program website)
- “linked with ecology offers opportunities to work toward ‘environmental justice’ and ‘just sustainability’ through examination of such issues as environmental racism, Indigenous and human rights violations in an unequal world, meeting the needs of current and future generations, improving well-being and quality of life, questioning the notion of ‘growth’ on a finite planet, and moving beyond theorizing to engagement and action.”
- “explores the entanglements, multiple meanings and contexts of ecologies, technologies and sustainability. Ecologies encompass the relationships between humans and non-human organisms and their social, cultural, and physical environments. Technologies denote digital and multimedia, arts-based, industrial, and home, to name a few, as well as the millennia of traditional ecological knowledges and practices of long-standing continuous cultures whose ways of living are interdependent with the non-human world.”
- “examines the material, sensory, and conceptual meanings and values associated with various forms of representation and lifestyle choices. People throughout the world have contemplated the aesthetic and ecological value of biodiversity as a way to understand how people shape the earth and in the process are affected by their creative practices to control, design, and interact within their environment in sustainable ways.”
- “incorporates the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of learning, and offers Indigenous and other ecological understandings of the diversity and interdependence of human and other-than-human lifeworlds. Hands-on and embodied learning creates (re-)connections with place through outdoor education, arts and crafts, school and community gardens, as well as service work with urban, rural and Indigenous communities locally and internationally toward ecological, social, cultural and economic sustainability.”