SDG 4: Quality Education Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Making sex education more accessible to young people by theatre

patilpos — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 01:44:00 +0000

by Shira Taylor In 2014, as a fresh-faced doctoral candidate, I walked into one of Toronto’s most diverse and overpopulated high schools with the idea of making sex education more accessible by inviting young people to sing, rap, and dance about everything from chlamydia to menstruation to homophobia. On my first visit to Marc Garneau […]

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Developing practical solutions to climate emergency

patilpos — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:55:11 +0000

by Codrina Ibanescu What does our collective future look like, with the current climate crisis on the horizon? Moreover, what role does education play in advancing climate solutions to ensure a prosperous and sustainable future for tomorrow? We simply cannot solve today’s problems using yesterday’s thinking – the future of our youth and our planet […]

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EUC and SDG 4: Quality Education

paultran — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:55:47 +0000

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Obtaining a quality education strengthens a range of fundamental development drivers. SDG 4 seeks inclusive and equitable quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all. EUC researchers and educators are working across diverse institutions to support accessible education, experiential learning and […]

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The production of Iran as a national state spacetime: Late development and formal subsumption

patilpos — Fri, 13 May 2022 14:47:34 +0000

Spacetime as a social product is almost absent in Iranian social thought and politics. Environment/geography is still considered to be a mere static background. This contrasts with a dialectical conception of spacetime as simultaneously a formative product and contingent condition (and indirect producer) of social action. Conventional approaches actively function to depoliticize spacetime by promoting […]

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Integrating UN Sustainable Development Goals in university curriculum, research, and partnerships

patilpos — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:52:39 +0000

How have universities integrated the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and what lessons might be learned and applied therein? This is the key question that Nicole Arsenault, MES alumnus and Program Director of 91��ɫ’s Office of Sustainability, sought to address in her MES Paper on The Role of Universities Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating […]

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Exploring and recreating ecologies that take shape between plants and people

patilpos — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:53:10 +0000

At the ArtworxTO Hub West, 250 the East Mall, Etobicoke, a display is growing, quite literally, that looks to educate visitors on the relationship between the migrations of people and plants to the Toronto area. The installation is primarily sound-based and draws on award winning artist and PhD candidate Alexandra Gelis’ research on plants and […]

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Amy Homer

paultran — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:10:08 +0000

Why did you choose 91��ɫ? I chose 91��ɫ because I was interested in their Environmental Studies program. What project are you focusing on during your time in the Capstone course? Project 73: How can educators approach indigenous perspectives in numeracy, literacy and the arts? How does your project align with the UN Sustainable Development […]

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Juan Caedo

paultran — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:35:42 +0000

Why did you choose 91��ɫ? I chose 91��ɫ because I liked how they were a very sustainable university and it just felt like the right decision at the time since I was transferring from another university. What project are you focusing on during your time in the Capstone course? I am in Team Q, which is […]

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Cop26: Youth Climate report

paultran — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:48:44 +0000

In the morning, the project Youth Climate Report work was presented. - an interactive documentary film project with a digital map showing over 400 videos of climate research produced by young people from all over the world. The Youth Climate Report is an interactive documentary film project that has been going on since 2011. Where young […]

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91��ɫ instructor Mark Terry’s new documentary to screen at COP26

paultran — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:35:34 +0000

91��ɫ contract faculty member Mark Terry’s new documentary film, The Changing Face of Iceland, will screen at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 4. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has selected The Changing Face of Iceland, the third instalment in Terry’s trilogy of polar documentaries focusing on the […]

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