Upcoming Event
2026 DARE Seminar 1
Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling
Come celebrate the release of faculty member Cary Campbell's new book, Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling.
This book argues that the root of education’s failure to address the complex problems of climate change lies in the stories we tell. At once too complex, too simplistic, and overly focused on communicating and accumulating scientific facts, the stories we tell about climate change often reduce the problem to singular issues, such as CO2 emissions, while advocating out-of-this-world technofixes. Against this challenge, the term “polycrisis” has emerged to describe the interconnected environmental and social crises we are confronting in the 21st century. The polycrisis encompasses much more than catch-all terms such as climate change and global warming, connecting issues as diverse as biodiversity and habitat loss, water and food scarcity, pollution, and resource depletion, as well as growing economic and social precarity. Through a series of essays and interviews with scholars, scientists, artists, and activists, this volume seeks to articulate existential and educational responses and interventions to the polycrisis. The author presents a terrestrial vision for critical eco-pedagogy, arguing that educational freedom in this time is not unlimited or unbounded, but rather cultivated through an engagement with limits and limitations—most fundamentally, the limits of a planet with limited resources and carrying capacity.
Presenters
- Dr. Cary Campbell
- Dr. Michael Ling
- Dr. Zuzana Vasko
- Dr. Charles Scott
- Dr. William Rees
- Dr. Tim Lilburn
Date/Time
Friday, May 8
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
- In person:
SFU Burnaby Campus
Education building 7610 - Zoom:
Link sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.
2026 DARE Seminar 2
Education in a Time of Metacrisis
What kind of education becomes possible when progress, growth, and human control can no longer be taken for granted? This DARE research seminar brings together scholars from the Faculty of Education to explore how education might respond to a world shaped by ecological instability, colonial legacies, ethical uncertainty, and the limits of modern assumptions about progress. The event also celebrates the publication of their recent contributions to the special issue Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the World to Come, highlighting the Faculty’s ongoing engagement with urgent educational, ecological, and social questions. At a time when familiar educational narratives no longer feel sufficient, this seminar invites deeper reflection on how education may be reimagined through questions of relationship, responsibility, agency, and collective futures. Rather than offering simple answers, the session opens a space for thoughtful engagement with the challenges and possibilities of education in a changing world. Join us for an important conversation on what education might become, and on how we might begin to imagine more just, relational, and sustainable futures together.
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