Several Norwegian POLLEN NODE members are organizing a PhD Course on the political ecology of education - Oslo 18-21 June 2024. More information below. -- Application deadline: 15 January, 2024…
Several Norwegian POLLEN NODE members are organizing a PhD Course on the political ecology of education – Oslo 18-21 June 2024. More information below.
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Application deadline: 15 January, 2024
5 ECTS credits
The course will critically examine the state of the art of current mainstream as well as critical approaches to education about sustainability, climate crisis and environmental conflicts. Based on their own research topics, course participants will be encouraged to discuss ways of combining insights from the cross-disciplinary field of political ecology, various other relevant traditions of critical empirical research, as well as critical education traditions.
Target groups: We welcome PhD students from various countries and academic specialisations, such as:
· participants doing a PhD project with empirical work concerning questions about sustainability, climate change or environmental conflicts, and who might want to use this opportunity to look at educational dimensions of their projects,
· participants who come from the broad field of education and/or do their PhD project within an education department.
· The course is relevant to education in a broad scope of settings, including contexts and levels from pre-school to university, as well as various types of education outside of formal education institutions.
The intensive course will be based on lectures with critical examinations of education contents on political ecology issues in various education contexts and ways to research this. In break out groups, PhD students and senior scholars will discuss submitted draft papers.
Lecturers include: · Prof. Stuart Tannock, University College London (author of Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis. Palgrave 2021), · Prof. David Meek, University of Oregon (author of The Political Ecology of Education: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement and the Politics of Knowledge. West Virginia University Press 2020), · Prof. Farhana Sultana, Syracuse University (topic to be added). · Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow Alfredo Jornet, University of Girona, will discuss school research methods relevant for PE of education. · Profs Tom G. Griffiths and Hanne Svarstad, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet).
Applications for the course must include:
· A brief summary in English of your PhD project (about ½ – 1 page).
· A text of 250 – 500 words in English (+ references) about your motivation and background for taking part in this course, and how you see the connection between the course and your PhD project.
Course requirements: Full attendance is required during this intensive course, all participants must complete the following activities prior to the course:
· Read the course syllabus of about 300 pp.
· Submit a draft course exam paper of 2000 – 2500 words plus references.
· Read and prepare comments on the drafts by about three colleagues in the assigned group for breakout sessions.
Exam paper: After the course, the students must meet the deadline for handing in a revision of their course paper of 3500 – 5000 words plus reference list. Deadline for submission of the exam paper is 3 September.
The course is free of charge (including lunches and a dinner). Participants must organise and pay for their own travel and accommodation.
Course context: This is the last instalment in a series of four Research Council of Norway-funded PhD courses, organized in conjunction with several Norwegian ‘nodes’ or member institutions in the international Political Ecology Network (POLLEN). Past courses in the series include Political Ecology of Pandemics (SUM/University of Oslo, 2021), Political Ecology of Scarcity, Limits, and Degrowth (Noragric/Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2022), Political Ecology of Land and Food Systems (Department of Geography/University of Bergen, May-June 2023).
The course is held at Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitian University, Pilestredet 46, centrally located in Oslo.
More information about the course – and a link to the application form: Political Ecology of Education (PHUV9490) – OsloMet
Contact: hanne.svarstad@oslomet.no
Hanne Svarstad
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