Abstract

As educators who work in professional learning in Educating for Sustainability (EfS) we have found that equity is often the most difficult of the 3 Es of sustainability to address well. We wanted to deepen our own understanding of and strengthen our practice in equity work in community with other educators. After gathering other interested people from multiple learning institutions to begin talking about social justice and EfS, a model for embedded professional learning emerged. This became a vehicle for sustained conversations around identity, power, privilege, and equity in our work. It was a safe space to explore how we participate in and perpetuate systems of inequity and to experiment with anti-racist actions that we endeavored to take within our unique spheres of influence. As this community of learning, inquiry and practice developed, we found that it allowed people to step into leadership roles in their own professional communities of teaching and learning.

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• Resources from Social Justice in Focus: An EfS Community of Practice