Repurposing the University in Times of Social and Ecological Breakdown: From the Ivory Tower to the Nurse Log

Auteurs-es

  • Sharon Stein University of British Columbia
  • Vanessa Andreotti University of Victoria

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.7069

Mots-clés :

enseignement supérieur, crise, restitution, régénération, responsabilités

Résumé

Cet article explore comment les universités pourraient être réorientées pour lutter contre l'accélération de l’effondrement social et écologique et assumer leurs responsabilités envers les générations futures. Pour ce faire, nous invitons les lecteurs à entreprendre une réflexion sur les moyens par lesquels les éducateurs pourraient préparer leurs étudiants et eux-mêmes à naviguer à travers les perturbations actuelles et futures de manière à interrompre les cycles persistants de violence et de non-durabilité grâce à des processus de redistribution, de réparation, de restitution et de régénération. Nous proposons de remplacer la métaphore qui considère les universités comme des tours d’ivoire élitistes par celle d’arbres tombés servant de suc nourricier pour une nouvelle croissance, qui pourraient soutenir le compostage du système actuel et nourrir de nouvelles possibilités en matière d’éducation et d’existence. Pour illustrer cette perspective, nous examinons deux initiatives expérimentales visant à réorienter l’enseignement supérieur vers une responsabilisation intergénérationnelle et interespèces.

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Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia

Sharon Stein is Associate Professor and Professor of Climate Complexity and Coloniality in Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. In collaboration with scholars, artists, and communities, her work asks how education can prepare people to navigate social and ecological breakdown in reparative, relationally rigorous, and intergenerationally responsible ways. She is the founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, a co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective, and author of Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (2022).

Vanessa Andreotti, University of Victoria

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She previously held the Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change and the David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the entanglements of historical, systemic, and ongoing forms of violence with the inherent unsustainability of modernity. She is a co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective, and author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (2021) and Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion (2025).

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Stein, S., & Andreotti, V. (2025). Repurposing the University in Times of Social and Ecological Breakdown: From the Ivory Tower to the Nurse Log. Revue Canadienne De l’éducation, 48(1), 120–144. https://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.7069

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Vol. 48 No. 1 (2025): Spring 2025 Special Issue | Printemps 2025 numéro spécial

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Special Issue: Bridging Social and Ecological Justice in Education

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