22 May

Room Umeå, Ulls hus, Almas allé 8, Ultuna, Uppsala

BOOK LAUNCH Transformative Pedagogic Practice: Education for Sustainable Development and Water Conflicts in Indian Geography Education

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Division of Rural Development invites you to a seminar with Stephanie Leder, Postdoctor at the Division of Rural Development. She talks to Stefan Bengtsson about her new book: Transformative Pedagogic Practice: Education for Sustainable Development and Water Conflicts in Indian Geography Education.

Transformative pedagogic practice (Springer 2018) probes the gap between the policy Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and contextualized pedagogic practice in India’s heterogeneous educational system. The book explores opportunities for innovation and paradigm change in reproductive classroom teaching and develops principles and methods for ESD grounded on critical pedagogy and the development of argumentation skills on controversial human–environment relations. These are relevant to participate in decision-making on sustainable development.

Based on empirical analysis of curricula, textbooks and teaching practices at English-medium schools in Pune, Maharashtra, the book investigates institutional regulations, power relations, and cultural values that structure geography education on the topic of water. Innovative methods are co-constructed to bring inequalities and uncertainties on water resources in the classroom through argumentation and multiperspectivity.

The book contributes to the emerging body of educational geography research on sustainable development through an interdisciplinary synthesis between cultural geography, geography education and the sociology of education.


Stephanie Leder. Photo.    Stephanie Leder is a postdoctoral researcher for social and environmental justice at the Department of Urban and Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). She holds a PhD in Cultural Geography from the University of Cologne, Germany, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow for Gender, Youth and Inclusive Development at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her work concerns feminist political ecology, water resource management, gender and development research and geographical education for sustainable development.
     
  Stefan Bengtsson is currently working as a researcher focusing on issues of sustainability in education. He has been national coordinator for ESD in Sweden and is currently deputy link convenor for the Environmental and Sustainability Education network of the European Education Research Association, and part of the T-Learning research project. In parallel to his academic work, he has been providing technical assistance to international efforts to address sustainability and gender issues in education, in particular in the East and South-East Asian context. Stefan’s research interest is focused on understanding the conditions of possibility of change in and through education and learning.

Facts

Time: 2019-05-22 13:00 - 14:30
City: Uppsala
Location: Room Umeå, Ulls hus, Almas allé 8, Ultuna
Organiser: Division of Rural Development
Additional info:

This talk is part of the higher seminar series in Rural Development. If you want to get emails about our events, please contact: Klara.Fischer@slu.se or Harry.Fischer@slu.se.