It will be good to see John Huckle again after a few years when we share a platform at a School Design Futures seminar in Oxford next week.\u00a0 I shall be\u00a0arguing that policy and practice around sustainable schools, and ESD more generally, tends to be based around largely tacit and usually unexamined assumptions about young people\u2019s motivations, interests and knowledge, and commenting on implications for the enhancement of learning. \u00a0 John will tread more familiar ground:<\/p>\n
\u201cI will relate this very brief talk to introduce the session to an alternative eco-socialist mode of production and consumption; I will relate unsustainability to the social dynamics and logic of consumer capitalism; and sketch the main elements of the alternative outlined by Tim Jackson in Prosperity without Growth<\/em>. \u00a0I will then draw on Benjamin Barber's text Consumed<\/em> to consider the impact of consumerism on children and projects such Sustainable Consumption: Young Australians as Agents of Change <\/em>to illustrate attempts to educate young people as catalysts of pro-enviornmental behaviour. \u00a0The limits of such projects will be explored and the case made for critical forms of ESD and consumer education linked to citizenship education. \u00a0These allow learners to recognize the values and interests underpinning different discourses of sustainability; develop sustainability as a frame of mind; and engage with community initiatives, such as LETS schemes that anticipate alternative modes of production and consumption. \u00a0The critical pedagogy outlined on the Open Spaces for Diaglogue and Enquiry<\/em> website is central to such education and while current policy on sustainable schools is primarily concerned with ecological modernisation, or the greening of capitalism, the contradictions it raises provide space for conceptualizing sustainability and sustainable school design differently and so moving forward.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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