Enacting Climate Justice Pedagogies for Well-Being: Teaching for Meaning, Purpose and Hope in Crisis
As part of the SCAN Research Talks series, Maria Vamvalis shares her doctoral research related to how Canadian educators are teaching in ways that support learner well-being in the context of the climate crisis. The challenges in integrating climate justice approaches to climate education are highlighted in this talk, while briefly identifying generative possibilities for decolonizing citizenship education in service of impactful local and planetary responses. for this webinar.
Speaker: Maria Vamvalis is an experienced public school educator and a facilitator of professional learning to support engaging, transformative pedagogies. She is currently a PhD candidate at С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ (University of Toronto) where her doctoral research focuses on holistic climate justice pedagogies for well-being. Maria is passionate about supporting educators to meaningfully address climate change in their classrooms.
