Date and time: Friday 6 November 5:00pm CET, 11:00am ET
Earth Charter International and the UNITWIN Network on ESD and Social Transformation, are organizing a series of webinars to bring together educators from different contexts to share good practices on education for sustainable development.
In this episode, we are inviting authors of two different publications related to one relevant competence of ESD: normative or integration of sustainability values into education for transformative processes. The authors will present some highlights of their writings and will engage in a dialogue between them and the audience.
The speakers are Natalya Hanley-Kun (UK) and Jacobus Bracker (Germany, on behalf of the other authors).
Natalya Hanley-Kun wrote the chapter called “The role of empathy-based GCE pedagogy in Earth Charter”, in the book “Education for Sustainable Futures: Global Citizenship and the Earth Charter”, edited by Douglas Bourn, Namrata Sharma, and Mirian Vilela published by Emerald Publishing (2025).
Jacobus Bracker with Maike Land, Claudia Lemke and Sam Crowell wrote the chapter: “Transformative Education and the Earth Charter: Enabling Sustainable Development Through Transformative Learning in Higher Education”, in: The Sustainable Organization, Vol. 3,edited by Wollmann, Pemler and Ndrevataj, Springer (Future of Business and Finance series) (2026).
The objective of this webinar series is to open a space for sharing and learning about how education for sustainability can be put into practice and get inspiration from concrete actions, from primary and secondary to higher education, in formal or non formal settings and from different cultural contexts.
This webinar is organized as part of our UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development with the Earth Charter, which develops education programmes and research in the field of education, sustainability, as well as values and ethics.
Speakers:
Natalya Hanley (UK) is an associate lecturer at the University of Greater Manchester (Educational Leadership). Her PhD study investigated the contribution of Empathy-based pedagogy to Global Citizenship Education at UCL, IOE. Her postdoctoral research project focused on International Student Mobility and World Development at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include the various areas of global and development education, critical pedagogy, lifelong learning, and education within conflict-affected contexts. She is a member of the Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL), the British Association for International & Comparative Education (BAICE), and the Political Economy of Education Research (PEER) network. Previously, she worked in the development education sector, developing and running various projects, including Life-Experience, Global Hand, Youth Employment, and Global Citizenship Education.
Jacobus Bracker (Germany) is an archaeologist and interdisciplinary educator working at the intersection of visual culture, narrative, cultural heritage, and ecological transformation. He is the founder and lead facilitator of planetaryways.org, an independent practice that works with cultural heritage as a living archive of images, objects, places, and stories that connect across time. His work explores how ancient and contemporary visual narratives can serve as associative and critical resources for learning, interpretation, and future-making in the context of the Anthropocene. Jacobus is teaching in the environmental humanities at Hamburg University of Technology. His sustainability education background includes courses with Earth Charter International and certification as an ESD Educator, as well as graduation from the UNITAR/UNESCO Certificate Programme for accelerating sustainability transformations in higher education. In practice, he designs and facilitates learning spaces to empower students and youths to effect ecocultural transformation. As an Earth Charter School Seal Verifier, he is committed to supporting schools in embedding sustainability, global responsibility, and transformative learning into their educational practice. He works in English and German.
Moderator: Alicia Jimenez (Costa Rica) Director of Programmes, Earth Charter International. Costa Rica.
