‘We must urgently learn to live differently’: the biopolitics of ESD for 2030

Bylund, Linus, 1980 (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession,Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies

Knutsson, Beniamin, 1974 (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession,Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies

Hellberg, Sofie, 1979 (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier,School of Global Studies

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2021-11-16
2022
English.
In: Environmental Education Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 28:1, s. 40-55

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Abstract Subject headings

Recently, the new global policy framework for implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) – ESD for 2030 – was launched officially. Drawing on Foucauldian theory, this paper explores biopolitical elements in ESD for 2030. The paper contributes to previous research on ESD policy by employing a biopolitical perspective, and by highlighting problematic aspects of the framework’s will to include and to adapt to different contexts. The analysis brings attention to the framework’s notions of life and to how different human populations are separated. Furthermore, the analysis of the framework demonstrates how notions of transformative pedagogy, community, and the individual, assume the functions of biopolitical techniques. The findings point to a biopolitical differentiation where rich and poor populations are assumed to need different educational interventions, adapted to their socio-economic contexts, in the global educational policy quest for sustainable development. Ultimately, we consider the potential of Foucauldian ethics as an affirmative alternative to the current mode of biopolitical differentiation in global ESD policy

Biopolitics; education for sustainable development; education policy; inequality; differentiation; ESD for 2030

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