Drama and Learning for Sustainable development

A seminarseries in four known scenes and one unknown…

What´s a Regional Center of Expertise?

An RCE is a network of existing formal, non-formal and informal education organisations. A network of RCEs worldwide will constitute the Global Learning Space for Sustainable Development. RCEs aspire to achieve the goals of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014), by translating its global objectives into the context of the local communities in which they operate.

Core elements of a RCE• 1. Governance - addressing issues of RCE management and

leadership• 2. Collaboration - addressing the engagement of actors from all

levels of formal, non-formal and informal education• 3. Research and development - addressing the role of research

and its inclusion in RCE activities, as well as contributing to the design of strategies for collaborative activities, including those with other RCEs

• 4. Transformative education - contributing to the transformation of the current education and training systems to satisfy ambitions of the region regarding sustainable living and livelihood./UNU Website

In 2015 we envision a broad, deep and complex network connecting actors from all over the region collaborating to diminish our ecological footprint, increase social well fare and find economic tools that support these aims. We have a well functioning ICT communication and an established research center. As a result from innovative encounters and increasing action competence among participants, we see several unexpected and self organized projects/activities with multi source funding. All partners are having a strong feeling of agency and commitment in transformative actions.

A growing polycentric learning network

What´s Education for Sustainable Development ?

Business as Usual is Over The biggest obstacle in order for the world  to change is that we lack the clarity to imagine that the world could be different Roberto Unger

one of the most often-identified obstacles is traditional institutional structures that are too vertically segmented and compartmentalized for the cross-cutting and holistic nature of ESD. Mochizuki & Fadeeva

Be able to creatively and energetically break with stubborn routines that led to unsustainability in the first place Arjen Wals

STRUCTURE ------ agency (Bhaskar)

Thanks Marcus Bussey!

Learning Agency Social Change Heila Lotz Sisitka

Social Change

Transformative Reflexive Relations

Not just Individual CompetenceCapability Sen

GROUP Cultural Level

EmergenceRhizomeEnsemble learning

The role of RCE West Sweden is very much to be a vehicle and a vessel for emerging activities. We do know a lot of things, but we do not know what a sustainable development looks like.

The Gogol InterPlayground projecthttp://gogoltalk.wordpress.com

A Seminarseries A year of Dramatic Explorations…

• 28 November Social Change Göteborgs Universitet

• 19 March Entrepreneurial Learning Navet Borås

• Late May in relation to Time and Space Vänermuseet Lidköping

• 24 September Drama as a researchtool in ESD Högskolan Väst

• November 2014… perhaps…most likely Glocal….• Perhaps a sixth UNKNOWN sessionWith INBETWEENS…………………………………….->->->

Drama and ESD in the Baltic Sea Region

ART Based Educational Research on Drama in ESD

in the Baltic Sea Region

WEEC 2015 World Environmental Education Conference

Welcome to WEEC 2015, held in Gothenburg, Sweden

One Focus is DRAMA+ESD=?

Contribute? Contact Åse Eliason Bjurström

ase.bjurstrom@hv.se

Tack så mycket!

Drama as a Pedagogy of Possibility in a transformative network for sustainable futures – Regional Center of Expertise (RCE) West Sweden

Åse Eliason Bjurström RCE WS, University Westase.bjurstrom@hv.se

“one of the most often-identified obstacles is traditional institutional structures that are too vertically segmented and compartmentalized for the cross-cutting and holistic nature of ESD”. Mochizuki & Fadeeva