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We are in a climate emergency, and the systems of social and income inequality that have led to this collapse persist today.
While governments may be content to watch an inevitable future unfold, youth leaders in drama classrooms around the world are are offering an alternative way forward.
Will we hear them?
Current Research
Can drama help transform Radical Hope into Audacious Citizenship?
From Radical Hope, we learned...
Learning in relation to one another, in intellectual and embodied ways, helps develop 'care'.
Relational modes of developing agency emerge from deep listening as a democratic tool for cultivating civic engagement.
Youth agency is mined relationally, and knowledge that is generated together is especially important to cultivating an ethics of care.
Our new study, Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice asks...
How might hybrid genres of drama, performance, and digital media encourage interdisciplinary conversation with young people about the nature of intersecting global crises (climate justice, social & political polarization)?
How might practices of drama contribute to a framework of global citizenship, and the cultivation of a global ethics of care?
How can the creation and performance of live theatre advance youth capacities for care in local and global contexts?
How might positioning youth as 'teachers' advance the aims of global climate education and foster a new generation of youth environmental action leaders?
Emerging Findings
Youth growing up 30 years ago were raised in an era of fear of a looming environmental crisis.
The current generation is growing up in its observable effects and many desire the capacity to act.
This is where we can add findings as they emerge. The layout is likely to change as we figure out how best to display the findings' - perhaps based on what they are and what we are prepared to say about them. Perhaps this is a space where something like the graffiti wall can be used, asking questions based on the findings we include here (just as an example).