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The Only Hope that is Worth Having is Hope in the Present
After their respective talks to the IB Global Conference in Toronto, Mahruk Hassan and Dr Vanessa Andreotti got together to discuss the role that young people and education can play in helping us to respond to the current crisis of modernity and how this might give birth to another way of approaching our world, more in tune with the nature that we are part of.
Dr Vanessa Andreotti is the new Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a Latinx researcher and educator who has worked extensively across disciplines, countries and sectors in areas related to global citizenship, global justice and climate education, and to community and Indigenous engagement. Her work problematizes and presents alternatives to common approaches in education that reproduce paternalistic forms of inclusion of marginalized populations, simplistic solutions to complex problems and ethnocentric ideals of sustainability, justice and change. At the University of British Columbia, Vanessa has held the Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. She has also held the Chair of Global Education at the University of Oulu, in Finland. Vanessa is one of the co-founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective. Her latest book is titled Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism.
© Music: ‘Lost in your World’ by Cezare Robles & Pieter Versloot
