Boklansering/Book launch: Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education

Name: Boklansering/Book launch: Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education
Start: 2024-11-09T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-11-09T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Litteraturhuset

Schedule

Sat Nov 09 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Litteraturhuset | Oslo, OS

(Norwegian translation follows the English)
Book Launch: Litteraturhuset Oslo
https://www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangement/boklansering-transformativ-okologisk-utdanning
Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education
Re-imagining sustainable education as relationship with the living Earth
Nov. 9, 2024, 13.00-17.00
Room: Kverneland
Language: English and Norwegian
Entrance: free (registration: see below)
Katharine Burke, author, in conversation with Martin Lee Mueller, Secretary General, Arne Næss Center for Ecology and Philosophy.
Contributors: Odin Lysaker, Philosopher/Poet, Simon Eide, Artist educator, and activist, Maria Jordet, Psychologist and climate grief researcher, Jorunn Barane, Place Based Educator, and eco-entrepreneur, Jen McConachie, Permaculture educator and facilitator of The Work that Reconnects, Ellen Stenslie, Rethinking Economics, Lesley Schafer, Primary School Principal.
‘Katharine Burke’s Earthwards, is a game changer. She confronts the deep ecological sadness of our time, and points us toward a broader, deeper environmental education. She not only focuses on how to teach about the natural physical habitat, but also about the habitat of the heart — which is where our future will truly be shaped’. -Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
‘How can we support students who have difficulty in coping with the world we have created?’ asks Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Director General of the International Baccalaureate Organization, and answers, ‘It all starts with changing the way we see ourselves as humans and how we see the world, environment, and nature.’
When Katharine Burke’s student asked her, ‘Miss Do you think we are going extinct?’ she knew that it was time for schools to shift sustainability education from prescribing action for students toward developing deep relationship with the living Earth. This shift in paradigm builds resilience and resolve and fosters a culture of care for ourselves and the planet. Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education looks at how we can do this, with stories of real teachers working with students in primary classrooms, gardens, wilderness trips, service clubs, and in secondary level language, social studies and geography courses.
Katharine Burke has been a lifelong educator and workshop leader in international schools and has taught in Norway for the past twenty years, at Skagerak International School in Sandefjord. She is a permaculture farmer, geography and social studies teacher, garden coordinator, regenerative design practitioner, and facilitator of the Work that Reconnects. She is also a mother and grandmother, passionate about leaving a viable world for her children, grandchildren and students. In keeping with Katharine’s belief that emergence of new understanding and practice comes from collaborative interaction and relationship in community, this book launch will include discussions and presentations from several other academics, artists, teachers, and though leaders exploring these guiding questions from the book:

13.00- How do we address ecoanxiety in schools in ways that build a culture of care?

14.00 How can we reimagine sustainability in schools as relationship with the living Earth?
15.00 How can we promote new paradigms for ecological systems thinking and social change in schools?
16.00 Book Launch: Katharine Burke in conversation with Martin Lee Mueller; book signing.
Each session is independent but connects to the others and includes discussion/reflection/exercises with audience participation. Welcome to one or all sessions! Registration: please email [email protected] (please state which sessions you will attend)

Litteraturhuset: Boklansering
Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education Re-imagining sustainable education as relationship with the living Earth
Nov 9. 2024, 13:00-17:00 (book launch 16.00-17:00 with related discussion and presentations from 13:00-16:00 (see below)
Kverneland
English and Norwegian
Gratis: påmelding (Nærmere informasjon under)

Katharine Burke, forfatter, I samtale med Martin Lee Mueller, Generalsekretær, Arne Næss Senter for økologi og filosofi.
Bidragsytere: Odin Lysaker, Filosof/Poet, Simon Eide, Kunstner, pedagog og aktivist, Jorunn Barane, Place based educator og øko-entrepenør, Jen McConachie, Permakulturpedagog og fasilitator av The Work that Reconnects, Ellen Stenslie, Rethinking Economics, m. fl.
‘Katharine Burke’s Earthwards, is a game changer. She confronts the deep ecological sadness of our time, and points us toward a broader, deeper environmental education. She not only focuses on how to teach about the natural physical habitat, but also about the habitat of the heart — which is where our future will truly be shaped’. -Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
‘How can we support students who have difficulty in coping with the world we have created?’ spør Olli-Pekka Heinonen, generaldirektør for The International Baccalaureate Organization, in en anbefaling av boken, og svarer, ‘It all starts with changing the way we see ourselves as humans and how we see the world, environment, and nature.’
Da en av Katharine Burkes elever spurte henne, ‘Miss, Do you think we are going extinct?’, visste hun at det var på tide for skolen å endre bærekraftsundervisningen fra å skulle fortelle elevene hva som må gjøres, til å legge tilrette for at elevene skal kunne utvikling et dypere forhold til naturen og den levende Jorda. Dette paradigmeskifte i undervisningen hjelper elevene til å utvikle motstandsdyktighet og evnen til å finne løsninger og er med på å skape en kultur med omsorg for oss selv og for jorda vi bor på. Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education, utforsker hvordan vi kan gjøre dette. Med historier og eksempler hentet fra læreres arbeide med elever både i grunn-, ungdoms-r og videregåendeskole, fra klasserommet, skolehager, skoleturer og utflukter, fra språk-, geografi- og sosialfagsundervisning, gir boken en praktisk og erfart innføring.
Katharine Burke har livslang erfaring som underviser og workshopleder ved internasjonale skoler, og har de siste tyveårene undervist ved Skagerak International School i Sandefjord. Hun er permakulturbonde, geografi- og sosialfagslærer, skolehagekoordinator og fasilitator av The Work that Reconnects. Hun er også mor og bestemor og brenner for å etterlate en levende verden til de som kommer etter.
I tråd med Katharines overbevisning om at ny forståelse og praksis vokser fram gjennom samarbeide i grupper, vil mennesker fra ulike fagfelt gi presentasjoner og diskutere ulike temaer og spørsmål med utgangspunkt i boka.
Boklanseringen er delt i fire:
13.00 - Hvordan adresserer vi klimaangst i skolene på en måte som bygger en omsorgskultur?
14.00 - Hvordan kan vi tenke nytt om bærekraft i skoler som forholdet til en levende jord?
15.00 - Hvordan kan vi fremme nye paradigmer for økologisk systemtenkning og sosiale endringer i skolen?
16.00. - Boklansering: Katharine Burke i samtale med Martin Lee Muller. Boksignering.
Hver del er uavhengig av hverandre, og man kan delta på en eller flere. Det legges opp til refleksjon/ diskusjon/øvelser med publikums deltakelse. Påmelding til [email protected]. (Si ifra hvilke presentasjoner du vil delta ved påmelding)