Justice, What a Dream!—Mapping Intersections of Sustainability and Inclusion

Autor(en)

Juliana Heigl, Matthias Müller, Nicole Gotling, Michelle Proyer

Abstrakt

This paper takes on the important concepts of inclusion and sustainability, in both their broad and discursive understandings, to map out the interrelations that teachers, who work within different areas of the Austrian school system, make between different, key aspects of their work and organization. The complex intersections of school organization, sustainability, and inclusion were analyzed following a situational analysis approach that made use of different types of mapping (e.g., messy, situational, positional) of data gathered from semi-structured interviews with a teachertraining student and teachers positioned across the Austrian school system, some of whom with experience in classrooms with, for example, refugee, d/Deaf, and neurodivergent students. The findings from these data display ways of being oriented towards sustainable and responsible as well as inclusive engagement, especially within educational spheres. By and large, what emerged from the data was the clear result that school organization as a whole plays one of the biggest roles in determining whether or not non-mandatory subjects such as “sustainability” are given space and time in the classroom. Therefore, if we want to promote topics on sustainability and a focus on climate justice in education, efforts need to be made to bring these topics into the official curriculum.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Institut für Lehrer*innenbildung

Journal

Sustainability

Band

14

Anzahl der Seiten

22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095636

Publikationsdatum

05-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

503034 Inklusive Pädagogik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Geography, Planning and Development, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 4 – Hochwertige Bildung

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/justice-what-a-dreammapping-intersections-of-sustainability-and-inclusion(57b94134-f31e-4e52-895f-9181b736e8ed).html