Many people around the world, including civil society, scientists, youth, and policymakers are concerned about the future of our common home and the choices we must make today to ensure that we change our course and stop contributing to our current planetary crises. To do this, all decision-makers, including governments, educational institutions, the private sector, and individuals must come together to achieve our global goals for justice, sustainability and peace, guided by common values. Through this intercultural dialogue, we will explore what it means to work towards an ecological civilization and the implications of that for education, specifically higher education. 

In this webinar, we aim to clarify the link between ecological civilizations and education. To do so, this panel will address the following questions:   

1.    What does the term Ecological Civilization mean?  

2.    How do you imagine the kind of education that fosters ecological civilizations? What are some specific examples of what is currently being done, or what could be done, towards this vision in the context of education?

Speakers:

Ma Shuang

Professor, Director, International Exchanges Department, Liaoning University, P.R. China

Utak Chung

Adjunct professor of Kyung Hee University, and former Director of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding – APCEIU, South Korea.

Maria Guajardo

Professor, Leadership Studies, Soka University, Japan

Philip Clayton

President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization (EcoCiv.org) and Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theology, USA

Moderators:

Amanda Bennett and Sifan Jiang, Earth Charter International

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