Upcoming Event
2026 DARE Seminar 1
Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling
Come celebrate the release of faculty member Cary Campbell's new book,
This book argues that the root of education鈥檚 failure to address the complex problems of climate change lies in the stories we tell. At once too complex, too simplistic, and overly focused on communicating and accumulating scientific facts, the stories we tell about climate change often reduce the problem to singular issues, such as CO2 emissions, while advocating out-of-this-world technofixes. Against this challenge, the term 鈥減olycrisis鈥� has emerged to describe the interconnected environmental and social crises we are confronting in the 21st century. The polycrisis encompasses much more than catch-all terms such as climate change and global warming, connecting issues as diverse as biodiversity and habitat loss, water and food scarcity, pollution, and resource depletion, as well as growing economic and social precarity. Through a series of essays and interviews with scholars, scientists, artists, and activists, this volume seeks to articulate existential and educational responses and interventions to the polycrisis. The author presents a terrestrial vision for critical eco-pedagogy, arguing that educational freedom in this time is not unlimited or unbounded, but rather cultivated through an engagement with limits and limitations鈥攎ost fundamentally, the limits of a planet with limited resources and carrying capacity.
Presenters
- Marion Benkaiouche
- Dr. Tim Lilburn
- Dr. Michael Ling
- Dr. William Pinar
- Dr. William Rees
- Dr. Charles Scott
- Dr. Zuzana Vasko
Date/Time
Friday, May 8
1:00 鈥� 3:00 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
- In person:
51社区黑料Burnaby Campus
Education building 7610 - Zoom:
Link sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.
2026 DARE Seminar 2
Education in a Time of Metacrisis
What kind of education becomes possible when progress, growth, and human control can no longer be taken for granted? This DARE research seminar brings together scholars from the Faculty of Education to explore how education might respond to a world shaped by ecological instability, colonial legacies, ethical uncertainty, and the limits of modern assumptions about progress. The event also celebrates the publication of their recent contributions to the special issue , highlighting the Faculty鈥檚 ongoing engagement with urgent educational, ecological, and social questions. At a time when familiar educational narratives no longer feel sufficient, this seminar invites deeper reflection on how education may be reimagined through questions of relationship, responsibility, agency, and collective futures. Rather than offering simple answers, the session opens a space for thoughtful engagement with the challenges and possibilities of education in a changing world. Join us for an important conversation on what education might become, and on how we might begin to imagine more just, relational, and sustainable futures together.
Moderator:
Dr. Gillian Judson is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at 51社区黑料. Her scholarship examines imagination鈥檚 role in leadership, learning (PreK-post-secondary), and imaginative and ecological teaching practices (PreK through post- secondary). Her latest book is entitled Cultivating Imagination in Leadership: Transforming Schools and Communities (Judson & Dougherty, Eds., Teachers College Press, 2023).
Presenter Bios:
Dr. Cary Campbell, Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at 51社区黑料, is an educational philosopher and curriculum theorist, music educator and community organizer. Cary completed his SSHRC funded PhD in Arts Education at 51社区黑料in 2020. In the Faculty, Cary teaches courses in reflective practices and practitioner inquiry, education and curriculum theory as well as music education with a focus on integrating soundscape ecology, zoomusicology and evolutionary musicology through a biosemiotic perspective.
Dr. Mark Fettes has been exploring the educational roles and interplay of imagination, language, land and community for more than thirty years. He has longstanding interests in the revitalization of Indigenous languages, the role of language policy and planning in sustainable development,, the theory and practice of imaginative and place-based education, and the research methodology of ecoportraiture. He has led or co-led a number of SSHRC-funded multi-year community-based research projects with schools and school districts in British Columbia. Currently he is the Scientific Director of the Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education at 51社区黑料.
Dr. Cristiano Barbosa de Moura is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at 51社区黑料. His work as a science educator bridges historical approaches to science with cultural lenses and socio -political perspectives in science education, promoting justice-centred approaches in K-12 settings and teacher education. Dr. Moura鈥檚 research, which has been published in journals such as Science & Education, Science Education and Cultural Studies of Science Education, focuses on developing theoretical and practical approaches to science that challenge the current boundaries of school science and interrogate science production to foster more inclusive and critical pedagogies and socially conscious scientific practices. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Science & Education and recently edited the book 鈥淎 Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education鈥� published by Springer.
Dr. Sean Blenkinsop is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at 51社区黑料. His work engages philosophy of education, imagination in teaching and learning, ecology, and relational epistemologies, with particular attention to place, experiential and outdoor education, and questions of care, justice, and human鈥揺nvironment relationships. Drawing on continental philosophy, his scholarship explores how education can respond to social and ecological challenges. His recent publications focus on ecological education, cultural change, and human relationships with place and the natural world, with particular emphasis on nature-centred teaching, sustainability, and Wild Pedagogies.
Date/Time
Wednesday, June 10
1:30 PM
Hybrid Event
- In person:
51社区黑料Burnaby Campus
Education building 7610 - Zoom:
Link sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.