Mathematics Education Researchers (MER) community
PhD course on Democratic practices and sustainability
Dear MES community,
Happy new year!
We give a PhD course on childhood, democracy and sustainability again, but this will be the last one. It is international, multi-disciplinary, interesting and great fun although the topics of the course are challenging and worrying. I’m sure this course will be of interest to many PhD students in the MES community.
Where: Bergen, Norway
When: 10-20 June 2025
NB! The deadline is February 1st, 2025.
5/10 ECTS, depending on whether an essay is handed in or not.
Students with limited funding can apply for refunds for the tuition fee, travel and accommodation expenses.
Welcome to Bergen!
Best wishes,
Kjellrun
Democratic practices and sustainability
The course focuses on childhood citizenship and the young's attitude to sustainability issues. The focus is on what we can learn from the situation in Norway, but includes global perspectives.This course will focus on childhood citizenship. Questions to be addressed: How can citizenship of the young be understood? What can lived democracy in childhood and education be?
The young are surrounded by controversial issues and disinformation on various media platforms, such as issues related to sustainability and climate change. The worldwide school strikes for climate action witness an engagement, but what are the young’s attitudes to climate change and solutions that can reduce serious consequences? What are their attitudes to democracy and democratic engagement as ways to handle sustainability problems? To what extent is there a "battle" between generations? How and why do attitudes vary across the world?
The course presents academic literature on these questions and aims to discuss how the young can be supported, engaged, and given hope in complex and uncertain sustainability issues.
For more information: https://www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs/173691/democratic-practices-and-sustainability