On March 7, the Faculty of Education will host a public lecture from 7 to 8:30 p.m., by speaker Charles Hopkins, the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability at York University.
Titled “Educating for Tomorrow’s Unknown: Sustainability Front and Center,” the lecture will address how – through the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) – countries are now called upon to provide quality education that prioritizes sustainability and encourages young people to become global citizens.
Hopkins will illuminate how all levels of educators, education professionals, students and parents can become engaged and make a collective impact with global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and rising inequalities – locally or in other parts of the world.
An awarded education leader with several honorary doctorates and professorships, Hopkins has lectured and presented papers in approximately 75 countries. He has coordinated two global Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) research networks – the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions and the #IndigenousESD, which aims to improve the education outcomes of Indigenous youth. Internationally, Hopkins has a long relationship with education and sustainability, chairing the writing and adoption processes of several UNESCO ESD Declarations. He is also the co-director of the Asia-Pacific Institute on ESD in Beijing, China.
This talk is a part of the Faculty of Education’s Public Lecture Series featuring leading scholars from the Faculty sharing their research and scholarship on key publicly relevant issues in education and society.
This free event will be live-streamed on Zoom and all are welcome to attend. Register here.
Click here to learn more about how York University is contributing to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Article originally published in the February 24, 2023 issue of Yfile.