Controversy in times of environmental crisis: dangers and opportunities in/for education
Oct 17, 2023 — 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
As part of the International Symposia series and the Year of Action on Education & Climate Action, the Faculty of Education is organizing this event, entitled "Controversy in times of environmental crisis: dangers and opportunities in/for education".
Program
- 2am – 2:10 pm: Opening remarks
- 2:10 pm – 2:40 pm: Presentation 1: Dr. Chantal Pouliot (Université Laval, Canada)
Summary of the presentation: Environmental and health controversies are numerous. Citizens come together, create knowledge, identify solutions. The documentation of citizen mobilizations and education helps to feed education. In this presentation, the main lines of controversies documented will be presented as well as a discussion of the ins and outs of their teaching in the socio-political context of the current environmental crisis.
- 2:40 pm – 3:10 pm: Presentation 2: Dr. Isabel Martins (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Summary of the presentation : Education for citizenship has been foregrounded as one of the main goals for Science Education in both academic research and curriculum policy worldwide. There will be a discussion about the limits and possibilities of achieving this goal by problematizing the very notion of citizenship itself, with particular reference to the ways through which the term has evolved in Brazil. In addition, the role of science related knowledge for the full exercise of citizenship will be presented, in the context of individual and collective decision making in contemporary scenarios where scientific discourse has been undermined by post-truth and fake news.
- 3:10 pm – 3:20 pm Break
- 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm Round table (with guest mediator: Dr. Lerona Lewis, University of Ottawa)
- 3:50 pm – 4 pm Closing remarks
Speakers
Chantal Pouliot
Full professor in the Department of Studies on Teaching and Learning at Laval University
Chantal Pouliot has been a full professor in the Department of Studies on Teaching and Learning at Laval University since 2006. She holds a bachelor's degree in biology, a master's degree in literature, a certificate in teaching and a Ph.D. in science education. A researcher at the Center for Research and Intervention on Academic Success (CRIRES), Professor Pouliot taught college biology for six years (2000-2006). Her research focuses on the teaching of socially sensitive environmental and health issues, citizen capacities and the challenges of researchers' participation in socio-political conversations. She has written in journals related to science education (Science Education, International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, Research in Science Education, etc.) as well as in EMBO reports and BioScience. Author of numerous chapters in reference works, she has written several texts in the general media, sometimes on academic freedom, sometimes on citizen mobilizations. She is co-director of the Learning from Controversy (PUQ) collection and lead editor of the international journal Cultural Studies of Science Education. She was a commissioner on the Independent Scientific and Technical Commission on the Recognition of Academic Freedom in a University Environment (also known as the Cloutier Commission, 2021) whose work led to the creation of Law 32 (June 2022).
Dr. Isabel Martins
Professor of Science and Health Education at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Isabel Martins is a professor of Science and Health Education at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she coordinates the Laboratory of Languages and Mediations. She taught Physics in Rio de Janeiro secondary schools before getting her PhD in Science Education at the University of London. She has worked at the University College London Institute of Education and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). She has also served as President of the Brazilian Science Education Research Association (ABRAPEC). Dr. Martins is editor-in-chief of the electronic teacher education journal Ciência em Tela, lead editor of the journal Cultural Studies in Science Education (Springer) and has served on editorial boards of leading science education journals. In addition, she has led and collaborated in several internationally funded projects, published extensively in refereed journals, co-edited academic books, and delivered keynote talks at many international conferences. Her research interests concern the recontextualization of science related discourses in curriculum policy documents, textbooks, popular science texts as well as in classroom contexts, and their role in the promotion of scientific literacy research and practice. Recent publications include the analysis of science textbooks, the role of images in science education and communication, and the appropriation processes of curriculum discourses and science education research in educational contexts.