Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence Sutoris Peter
Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence Sutoris Peter The work of environmental educators and activists in India and South Africa offers new models for…
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Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence Sutoris Peter
The work of environmental educators and activists in India and South Africa offers new models for schooling and environmental activism.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. He exposes the depoliticizing effects of schooling and examines cross-generational knowledge transfer within and beyond formal education. 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.
Finally, he calls for the bridging of schooling and environmental activism, to find answers to the global environmental