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The global dimension addresses the impact of global issues of concern on education. Key themes within this dimension include climate change, environmental collapse, geopolitical instability, international political economic issues and technological threats and opportunities. 

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Global Dimension

Learning in a global, networked society.

To understand these issues, this dimension leans of the environmental humanities, particularly scholars from the field of Science and Technology Studies, to situate education and learning within an entangled web of production, consumption and environmental destruction. 

Global Dimension in Ginie's words:

Important Concepts

Hyperobjects

Timothy Morton

Morton’s concept describes vast entities like climate change that are distributed across time and space, influencing environmental thinking and collective action.

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Entanglement

Donna Haraway

Haraway’s idea highlights interconnected relationships between humans, non-humans, and technology, shaping ecological and social understanding.

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Actor–network theory

Bruno Latour

Latour’s framework views humans and non-humans as equal actors in networks, explaining how relationships shape knowledge and action.

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Radical resurgence

Leanne Simpson

Simpson’s concept emphasises Indigenous knowledge and resurgence through storytelling, activism, and cultural revitalisation.

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Windigo

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kimmerer uses the Windigo metaphor to explore greed, consumption, and the need for ecological reciprocity.

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Carrier bag theory of fiction

Ursula K. Le Guin

Le Guin reimagines storytelling as a container for shared experiences, centring collaboration over heroism.

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