Citizenship, Social Values and Ethics in Sustainability education aims to explore key ethical concepts and perspectives useful in education for sustainable development, with a particular focus on social sustainability issues. This includes critical analyses regarding the concepts of civics, and citizenship, and human rights in relation to such aspects as gender, ethnicity, religion, and interactions with nature both historically and in contemporary times. Citizenship, Social Values and Ethics in Sustainability education addresses the role and responsibility of education, in highlighting ethical perspectives and challenges related to sustainability and how norms and values are expressed in relation to dimensions of social sustainability, such as power, justice and equality.
The main aim for the Learning Community is, consequently, to highlight and critically analyse from a transdisciplinary and cross-campus lens with students the educational strategies for the study of challenges, as well as opportunities, for the development of a knowledge based, democratic sustainability education. Students will engage in discussions and analyses where various dimensions of environmental ethics are in focus, discussions and analyses that are developed in seminars where students affiliated at the universities represented in the Learning community come together for mutual collaboration. This collaboration is also developing practical projects such as thematic excursions in/to/at the physical and cultural environments of the different higher education institutions and the communities in which they sit.
Researchers who are affiliated at the different universities are invited to give lectures on themes in which ethics and values are highlighted with regard to sustainability education.
Learning Community Activities
Past Events
- Panel Roundtable Recording November 15th , 2022 (LC Citizenship, Social Values and Ethics in Sustainability Education). The panel roundtable was informal and conversational in nature, chaired by the lead, with the idea of exploring how their courses address citizenship ethics and social sustainability, the opportunities seen and the challenges. Participation for the roundtable was already confirmed by
- Participants: The partners: Sally Windsor (GU) Olof Franck (GU), Naomi, Maruška (UoL) and Lela Melon (UPF) and EUTOPIA central curriculum team
Modality: Online and recorded. A video recording and audio recording is available. The video can be chunked for different purposes. The transcription of the recording is not available yet.
- First edition of EUTOPIA LU EUTOPIA LU ‘Citizenship, Social Values and ethics in sustainability Education, coordinated by Sally Windsor & Olof Franck (UoG)—cross-EUTOPIA-connections to be discussed & prepared.
How to get involved?
(Students and educators)
Contact the EUTOPIA curriculum team: Jo Angouri (J.Angouri@warwick.ac.uk) and Karen Triquet (karen.triquet@vub.be)