Thriving Sustainably on Planet Earth

How do we thrive sustainably on planet Earth? This is an urgent question to which this book provides a range of fresh responses. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, academics provide compelling visions for education that disrupt but also open up and inspire new pedagogic opportunities. Responding to these visions, teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders offer practical reflections, describing the ways they are living out these new ideas in their classrooms and schools. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the book invites us to consider what education can and ought to look like in a world beset by challenges. Despite the seriousness of the manifestos, there is optimism and purpose in each chapter, as well as a desire to raise the voices of children and young people: our compassionate citizens of the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

James Biddulph, MBE, is CEO of Avanti Schools Trust. He was the founding headteacher of the University of Cambridge Primary School and is an award-winning teacher, school leader and author with more than two decades of experience working in primary education.

Emily Shuckburgh, CBE, is Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge’s major climate change initiative, and Professor of Environmental Data Science at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. She is co-author with HM King Charles III and Tony Juniper of the Ladybird Book on Climate Change (2017).

Harry Pearse is Research Director at the Centre for Deliberation (National Centre for Social Research). Formerly a Research Associate at and founding member of the Centre for the Future of Democracy at the University of Cambridge, he has published on democratic theory and seventeenth-century natural philosophy in both academic and media outlets.