Education and Training for Climate Justice
On the 26th and 27th September 2024 the second International Conference about ecosocial education, entitled „Education and Training for Climate Justice,“ will be organised by EUKI project Classroom for Life. On the first day we will host two distinguished international experts: Dr. Daniel Christian Wahl and Dr. Mirela Sertić Perić.
Teachers play a pivotal role in educating children and youth about the urgent need to address the ongoing climate crisis. Recognizing this, the EUKI-funded project „Classroom for Life“ aims to empower primary and secondary school teachers in Slovenia by developing and implementing educational training, conferences, and tools focused on ecosocial education.
In 2024 the training for teachers „From Teacher to Facilitator of Learning for Climate and Sustainability“ was successfully implemented with two groups of teachers from primary and secondary schools.
Second International Conference about ecosocial education, entitled „Education and Training for Climate Justice“
On the first day of the conference 26th of September 2024, we will host two distinguished international experts: Dr. Daniel Christian Wahl and Dr. Mirela Sertić Perić.
– Dr. Daniel C. Wahl is a leading figure in the reGeneration movement and author of Designing Regenerative Cultures, translated into seven languages. His session, titled Bioregional Regeneration as an Implementation Pathway of Climate Justice will explore conventional sustainability approaches and propose bioregional regeneration as a more effective solution.
– Dr. Mirela Sertić Perić is an Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Science, Department of Biology. Her presentation, Nurturing Sustainable Futures: Exploring Education for Sustainable Development, will emphasize the critical need to integrate Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into education systems. She will discuss how ESD aligns with global Sustainable Development Goals and national curricula, and its essential role in addressing global challenges.
The international part of the conference will take place online on September 26th 2024, from 9.00 to 11.30 CET. You can register for the conference here.
Day two, 27 September 2024, will take place on-site in Koper, Slovenia, at the University of Primorska Faculty of education, and will be dedicated to empowering primary and secondary school teachers from Slovenia. We will host two Slovenian experts, Dr. Tomaž Grušovnik who will lead a session entitled „Philosophy for children and environmental ethics“, and Dr. Dejan Meh Savić who will explain how and why climate justice is key to solving and overcoming the climate crisis. A roundtable with decision-makers and stakeholders of the Slovenian school system will follow the two sessions. The guests will discuss how to integrate sustainability and climate literacy into the Slovenian education system. The conference will conclude with six different parallel workshops which will be facilitated by sustainability, climate and education experts from various Slovenian organisations.
Learn more about the second International Conference on ecosocial education here.
The „Classroom for Life“ project was launched in December 2022 with study groups that brought together teachers from primary and secondary schools to develop interdisciplinary learning scenarios using the facilitated learning method as an innovative teaching approach.
In September 2023 the scenarios were presented at the first International Conference on Ecosocial Education. The theme of the conference was „place-based learning.“