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Currently reading Williams & Grain (2025) on “Teaching in a Time of Climate Collapse: From “An Education in Hope” to a Praxis of Critical Hope”

mglessmer — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:31:31 +0000

“Sustainability educators face a conundrum in the midst of climate collapse: what if to teach truthfully is to break hearts? What if teaching with the most current and rigorous research is tantamount to inducing hopelessness, anger, and anxiety?” This is the introduction to Williams and Grain (2025)’s article “Teaching in a Time of Climate Collapse: […]

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Currently reading Finnegan & d’Abreu (2024) on “The hope wheel: a model to enable hope-based pedagogy in Climate Change Education”

mglessmer — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:10:44 +0000

We are discussing more and more about the importance of hope when talking about climate change and general sustainability questions, and I wrote about different approaches before (for example, Webb (2013)’s five types of hope, which are patient, critical, sound, resolute, and transformative hope, and Macy & Johnstone (2022)’s Active Hope). And now here is […]

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Currently reading about “Active hope” (Macy & Johnstone, 2022)

mglessmer — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:52:27 +0000

I’ve read and written about the importance of hope, especially when teaching for sustainability, before, and a book that always comes up in this context is Active hope by Macy & Johnstone (2022). And I finally got my hands on it (access via LUB)! They write that “At the heart of this book is a […]

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