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BSRS 2025 COURSE

Democratic practices and sustainability

The course explores childhood citizenship and the young's attitude to sustainability issues. The focus is on experiences from the situation in Norway, but includes also global perspectives.

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Course leader
, Professor of education for sustainability, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL).

Course lecturers
,聽(PhD), NORCE, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), 幸运飞艇计划
, Professor Emeritus, 幸运飞艇计划

Course description
This course will focus on childhood citizenship. Questions to be addressed: How can citizenship of the young be understood? What can lived democracy in childhood and education be? The young are surrounded by controversial issues and disinformation on various media platforms, such as issues related to sustainability and climate change.

The worldwide school strikes for climate action witness an engagement, but what are the young鈥檚 attitudes to climate change and solutions that can reduce serious consequences? What are their attitudes to democracy and democratic engagement as ways to handle sustainability problems? To what extent is there a 鈥渂attle鈥 between generations? How and why do attitudes vary across the world?

The course presents academic literature on these questions and aims to discuss how the young can be supported, engaged and given hope in complex and uncertain sustainability issues.

Learning outcomes

The candidate will:

  • have knowledge about ideas connected to young learners as critical citizens聽
  • have knowledge about what policy discourses on climate change students learn in school in various countries
  • have knowledge about young people鈥檚 attitude to climate change, Norwegians in particular
  • be able to apply key concepts of the course, such as lived democracy, critical citizenship, critical thinking
  • be able to reflect on key concepts of the course in relation to her/his own PhD project

Suggested literature / reading list

Breivega, K.M.R., Hauge, K.H. & Tjomsland, M. (2022). Lived Democracy in the Classroom: Student views on risks and benefits related to oil exploitation in Lofoten. In Herheim, R., Werler, T.C. & Hauge (Eds.) Lived democracy in education. Young citizens鈥 democratic lives in kindergarten, school, and higher education, p. 141-152. Abingdon, G.B.: Routledge

Chinn, C.A., S. Barzilai, and R.G. Duncan. 2021. Education for a 鈥減ost-truth鈥 world: New directions for research and practice. Educational Researcher 50(1): 51鈥60.

Fl酶ttum, K., Dahl, T., Scheurer, J. (forthcoming 2022/23) 鈥楾rying (hard), but it鈥檚 difficult鈥: Youth voices on lifestyle matters in a climate perspective. In: Svendsen, B. A., Jonsson, R. (Eds), Routledge Handbook on Language & Youth Culture.

Hauge, K.H. (2022). A tool for reflecting on questionable numbers in society. Studies in Philosophy and Education 41, 511鈥528.聽

Hauge, K.H., Werler, T.C., & Herheim, R. (2022). An elaborated understanding of lived democracy in education. In Herheim, R., Werler, T.C. & Hauge (Eds.) Lived democracy in education. Young citizens鈥 democratic lives in kindergarten, school, and higher education, p. 177-188. Abingdon, G.B.: Routledge

Hickman, C., Marks, E., Pihkala, P., Clayton, S., Lewandowski, R. E., Mayall, E. E., . . . van Susteren, L. (2021). Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(12), e863-e873.聽(21)00278-3

Ojala, M. (2021). Safe spaces or a pedagogy of discomfort? Senior high-school teachers' meta-emotion philosophies and climate change education. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52(1), 40鈥52

Straume, I.S. (2019). What may we hope for? Education in times of climate change. Constellations, 27 (3), 540-552.聽

Swim, J. K., Aviste, R., Lengieza, M. L., & Fasano, C. J. (2022). OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change. Global environmental change, 73, 102479.聽

Tr忙dal, L.T., Eidsvik, E. & Manik, S. (2022) Discourses of climate change education: The case of geography textbooks for secondary and higher secondary education in South Africa and Norway, Norwegian Journal of Geography, 76:2, 94-109,聽

Credits

Participation at the BSRS is credited under the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Participants submitting an essay, in a form of a publishable manuscript of 10-20 pages, after the end of the summer school will receive聽10 ECTS. Deadline for submission will be decided by your course leader.

It is also possible to participate without producing an essay. This will give you聽5 ECTS. In order to receive credits, we expect full participation in the course-specific modules, plenary events and roundtables.

Course leader

Kjellrun Hiis Hauge聽is professor of education for sustainability, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. She is a mathematics educator, and her research interests cover democratic practices in teaching and learning, critical citizenship and students鈥 capacity to engage critically with mathematics-based information related to contemporary and controversial societal issues such as sustainable development. She is the founder and a member of the research group聽.