CSSE-SCÉÉ CSSHE- Plenary: Sustaining Futures in the Now: Young People Becoming Teachers
The agency and well-being of young people to take action to address social issues ranging from decolonizing in sexual and reproductive health rights to climate adaptation is in itself a critical social issue for many governments around the world. This is particularly so in relation to Sustainable Development Goals. Paradoxically, the agency and well-being of new teachers, many of whom are young people, remains an under-studied area both in youth studies and in teacher education However, as highlighted a few years ago in a special World Teacher Day focus on teachers under 30, supporting a cadre of new motivated and activist young people coming into the profession is vital. Drawing on local and global contemporary and ‘in history’ examples of participatory and activist work with and by young people becoming teachers, this talk explores ideas of the ‘now and for the future’, and what this could mean for faculties of education amongst other global actors.
In collaboration with CSSHE