Expression of Interest - post-doc @UniSR (Italy)
ISHPSS
From: Pongiglione Francesca <pongiglion...@UNISR.IT>
The post-doc researcher will work with an interdisciplinary team on the recently funded project ENCOMPASS - ENgaging and orienting the young in the COMPlexity of climAte change and Sustainability to foster agency and deliberation in Societally relevant choices.
We will be looking for candidates with skills in one or more of the following topics:
- Climate ethics (individual and collective duties regarding climate change; moral and social environmental norms and values; environmental virtues)
- Epistemology (science denialism; climate skepticism; wrong beliefs about climate change)
- Political activism (climate change movements: potential and limits; role and function of activism; activism as a driver of social change)
- Intergenerational justice (climate duties towards future people)
The advertised position is in philosophy, but the project brings together philosophy, economics and science education. An interdisciplinary background, or interest in the involved disciplines is thus welcome, although not strictly required. Applicants from disciplines others than philosophy, but relevant for the project, are invited to express their interest (see Project’s abstract below).
Flexible working arrangements will be possible.
Knowledge of Italian is not required.
We are planning to post the call for applications before the
end
of 2023. We encourage potential applicants to
express their
interest and get in touch with the UniSR project
coordinator prof. Francesca Pongiglione: (Pongiglion...@unisr.it) by sending a short
CV and a motivation letter explaining their interest for
the project.
ENCOMPASS – Project’s abstract
The young generations show an unprecedent willingness to contribute to CC abatement: demonstrations are organized worldwide to place pressure on political leaders. However, surveys show that false beliefs about CC are widespread, with the result of concentrating efforts on ineffective actions. Forms of radical activism are taking place, and show a lack of orientation among young people, who have trouble understanding how to become agents of change. The overarching goal of ENCOMPASS is to respond to these phenomena by unpacking the concept of agency in the context of CC, including both individual action and political participation, and fully incorporate it in science education programs.
The improvement of science education in schools, despite being in the UNESCO agenda for over 60 years, is still underrealised. Almost half of the national curricula worldwide do not refer explicitly to CC. The educational systems, however, play a crucial role in fostering learners’ ability to construct coherent pictures of the complexity of the present, and empowering them to develop transformative agency.
ENCOMPASS will take advantage of the team's multidisciplinary nature to observe CC agency through the lenses of the disciplines involved. The results obtained will then be combined into concrete implementation steps and school curricula recommendations.
Philosophy will allow a deeper understanding of the relationship between knowledge and agency; will explore the possible causes of false beliefs formation; will investigate the twofold nature of CC agency – individual and collective; will provide a reflection on the duties of the individual as a citizen of a global and interconnected society.
Economics will investigate the behavioural mechanisms and antecedents of socially relevant choices and the dynamic effects of individual actions when combined; will test ways in which participation and action can be promoted; will develop innovative tools to assess willingness to act, and use them as didactic instruments to foster a deeper understanding of the role of the individual in addressing socially relevant problems.
Science education will unpack the relationships between knowledge, skills, and attitudes; will identify strategies, methodologies, tools, and space–time structures to equip students to critically engage with scientific knowledge, which will foster their decision-making and support them to become agents of change; will produce results that will guide the design of effective teaching/learning experiences.
ENCOMPASS aims at creating a more resilient, cohesive, inclusive, open, and democratic society.
It will take innovative approaches to adapt education to the evolving needs of society. It aspires to create through school education a society where the young generation is responsive to existing and unexpected threats, and able identify, devise, and put into action mitigation and adaptation strategies for the sustainable transition.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Philosophy
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