About the talk:
Fridays for Future has shown that school pupils can be key political actors in the climate crisis. But who actually took part in the strikes, and who didn’t? And to what extent were teachers even permitted to address such politically charged topics in the classroom? The talk takes school strikes – for climate protection and against compulsory military service – as a starting point for thinking about education for sustainable development in political terms: navigating the balance between fostering political agency for a more sustainable world, the risk of overwhelming students, and the call for inclusive participation of all pupils in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
About the speaker:
Hannah Kalläne is a research assistant at the Institute of Education Studies and is completing her PhD in the ‘Inclusion-Oriented School Development and Teaching Research’ working group. In her research, she uses current school strike phenomena to link themes of education for sustainable development and political education with inclusion-oriented approaches. Previously, she obtained a Master’s degree in Teacher Training for grammar schools and comprehensive schools at Bielefeld University, specialising in English and Biology, as well as a Master of Arts in British and American Studies.
“UPB for Future” Lecture Series
For the seventh time, the Educational Innovation and Higher Education Didactics Office, in collaboration with Prof. Dr René Fahr’s research group, is organising a joint lecture series on the topic of sustainability during the winter semester 26/27. The lecture series is entitled “UPB for Future” and is aimed at students from all disciplines and at all stages of their studies, staff members and the interested public. In weekly lectures, the ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability will be explored and discussed.
