Challenging False Solutions and Centering Indigenous Responses to the Climate Crisis
Friday, October 20, 2023, 3-4:30 PM Children’s Greenhouse, UBC Farm Abstract Indigenous Peoples have long identified colonialism, capitalism, and the commodification of nature as the central drivers of climate change. However, mainstream technocratic climate solutions fail to address these systemic root causes, often resulting in projects that violate Indigenous sovereignty and exacerbate ecological injustices. Against […]
New article – The Challenges of Interrupting Climate Colonialism in Higher Education
Excerpt from In this article Sharon Stein and Jan Hare ask how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To grapple with this question, they examine the dynamics through which climate action can reproduce colonial relations and reflect on the challenges, complexities, and possibilities that emerged […]
EDST Doctoral Colloquium – Higher Education Beyond Hope
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Launch of the EDST Students’ Den & Celebrating Prof. Pierre Walter’s Retirement
Dear EDST Members: Thank you to all EDST Members and Guests who took part in launching the EDST Students’ Den and celebrating Prof. Pierre Walter’s retirement yesterday, Thursday, September 21st, 2023, on the 3rd floor in PCN, ahead of our first meeting for the year. The space where these two moments were celebrated mark new […]
Congrats to Lesley on her CSSHE Award!
Andres, L. (2022). Higher education and the marriage market: Educational attainment, educational homogamy, and inequality. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 52(1), 51-69. Link to article This award honours the lifetime work of Edward F. Sheffield by recognizing the article judged to be the most excellent in The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, and is presented […]
Book Presentation and Discussion: Critical Hope
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Dr. Victor Brar to present at NAAPE
Dr. Victor Brar will be presenting his research paper (The Sins of the Father: Bricolaging the Aristotelian Philosophy of Shame with the Freirean Philosophy of Critical Pedagogy to Address Inherited Colonial Shame Among Settler Children in British-Columbia’s K-12 Schools) at the upcoming NAAPE (National Association for the Philosophy of Education) conference (in Chicago, Illinois, Oct 27th-29th). […]
Book Presentation and Discussion: Philosophical Research in Education
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