Just Education JustEd
| Areas | : | Education and learning |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher/s in charge | : | Maria Balarin |
| Execution time | : | November 2020 |
Presentation
The expectation that education can drive the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) often assumes linear trajectories and underplays experiences of education. For example, it is often assumed that including content about sustainability in syllabi or textbooks will lead to learners who make sustainable choices and lead sustainable lifestyles as advocated in SDG13 (“combat climate change”). Likewise, the assumption that learners’ experiences of education will be safe, of high quality and fulfilling underpins much of the effort to achieve “just and inclusive societies” as envisioned in SDG16, but the expansion of education often ignores the ways in which education it can be a driver of injustice, conflict, exclusion and marginalisation.
In this project, researchers posit that the links between education and sustainable development are premised on complex manifestations of justice in and through education, and they should be researched as such. Attending to both the lived experiences of secondary education and the complex trajectories between content and learning outcomes, Just Education (JustEd) aims to explore the degree to which experiences of (in)justice through schooling and learning about (in)justice in schools can drive the intended actions of secondary school learners to meet SDG13 and SDG16.
