Author: Jo Brooks

Join us in reimagining education and shaping contemporary educational policy through the transformative power of knowledge co-creation.

The research work of Monica Gupta and Komal Yadav poses the question 'Do open self-developmental spaces help in integrating the personal social and professional selves of student teachers?' Their investigation centers around a teacher training…

This is the story of Belancilla and Bernard living in Musanze District of Rwanda. However, the message it carries rings true for the millions of troubled households spread across the globe: When violence and dischord…

In a country obsessed with meat, Bridget Ringdhal’s film 'Healing is in the pot', tells the story of One Planet SA’s exploration into changing mindsets towards plant-based diets. Using a series of interactive cooking sessions…

Thanks to the loving work of TESF grantees at the Institute for Natural Resources (INR), the walls of a small rural school in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, are now ringing with song. Young green shoots…

This peaceful and reflective film digs a little deeper in the process of participatory research from an academic’s perspective. This film unpacks the all-too-often unseen side of participatory research speaking to the highs, the lows…

The Eco-Schools programme is an ambitious pilot project which could help shape the future of environmental education within schools across Somalia. The Eco-Schools program helps students, schools, and the larger school community better understand what…

This film is a moving journey into the heart of the one of the largest education systems in the world. It probes deeply into what it means to be a teacher in India today –…

The fast growing outskirts of Garowe today In a fast-growing Somalian desert town, a coalition of local visionaries are laying the foundations of a brighter, greener future. Somalia is urbanising rapidly at a rate of…

School food gardens are not a new concept, and while they can bring many benefits, they can also present a number of challenges. In the eyes of a group of researchers working with TESF, school…

Water has been at the heart of the development of cities since the dawn of time, bringing with it food, life and culture. The city of Pune, in India, is no exception. Despite its rich…

Due to cultural and religious customs, many Somali women find themselves locked out of participation in the kind of sports which so many other girls around the world take for granted. Times are changing though…

Lunga Makhonxa speaks from the heart in the film Afrocentric Climate Culture Crafting better, fairer futures is as much about crafting and recrafting identity as it is about any process of physical transformation.  Filmmakers Lunga…

As with many of the world’s last remaining wildernesses, the vast stretches of coastline along the West Coast of South Africa are under increasing pressure from mining. The region’s remote nature and sparse populations put…

December marked the culmination of more than a year’s worth of training, feedback and creative hard work by TESF network filmmakers.

Jama Adam transports us deep into the Horn of Africa with his film on education for climate adaptation.

We are delighted to introduce the first round of films that have been submitted by a number of TESF filmmakers.

Members of the TESF team presented at BAICE 2022, stimulating some good discussion and interest in the projects as well as the network itself. The slides of the presentation are available here.

We are delighted to announce that the call for proposals in India is now open. For information on how to apply, please go to the TESF India IIHS microsite. Please note that the deadline for…

This year’s conference theme was ‘Building Back Better in Education and Training?’ and TESF’s contribution was to the thematic area of research methods. Transforming education systems for sustainable futures requires new approaches to research methodologies, partnership working and measurements of what we value. In this symposium, TESF partners described the Network’s approaches to research methodology, partnership working, and indicator development. 

Intersecting perspectives on why water, food and livelihoods matter in transforming education for sustainable futures.

Education’s ‘reparative’ possibilities: responsibilities and reckonings for sustainable futures

From theory to practice: decolonising education for sustainable futures

Connecting decolonial and sustainable futures in education

The Covid-19 pandemic has made visible the sharp economic, health, caste-based, gender, and educational inequalities that the disadvantaged face in India. Curriculum is ordinarily viewed as a tool for regulating and adapting modern educational systems…

Conversations with Mangroves and attuning to the rising cultures of Change Drivers are some of the unintended methodologies discovered by TESF researchers Terra Sprague and Injairu Kulundu-Bolus who invite you to participate in acts of…

We are delighted to announce a number of upcoming webinars: Re-imagining UK education research partnerships in the South: prospects for mutual and equitable relationships (18 Nov 2020), Unintended Methodologies: arts-based research practices as forms of listening (25 Nov 2020), and Skills for Sustainable Futures (16 Dec 2020). For further information on these events, please visit our Events page.

Debates about skills for development are still predominantly locked into a model of skills provision, labour markets and national development that was never true in the Global South but is becoming even more blatantly pernicious…

This webinar is an opportunity for sharing evidence, experiences, strategies and plans for the purpose of collectively re-imagining the relationships and responsibilities of UK-based researchers engaged in education partnerships in the former colonised countries of…

We were delighted to connect with many attendees at our two recent webinars: Launch of Professor Leon Tikly’s new book ‘Education for Sustainable Development in the Postcolonial World’ (16 July 2020), and our first TESF webinar on ‘Conceptualising Education for Sustainable Futures: Framing the work of the TESF Network Plus’ (22 July 2020). Please visit our Events page for more information and to access recordings of our webinars.

We launched our Network Plus on 6 January 2020 at a well-attended public event in Bristol, UK. Videos covering the event are available via the link below.

In January 2020, alongside TESF’s Network Plus launch in Bristol, TESF members joined up with the Bristol University Sustainable Futures group to discuss the role of Higher Education in addressing the climate emergency. This was an opportunity to further the thinking about Bristol University’s response to the climate emergency by learning from TESF partners in South Africa, the Netherlands, Nigeria and Sweden, as well as from other projects in the Bristol University’s School of Education.

This inter-active webinar will explore ways of conceiving education for sustainable futures linked to a vision of social and environmental justice. Discussion and debate arising from the webinar will feed into our ongoing efforts in…

This interactive session is being organised by the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education at the School of Education (University of Bristol) to mark the launch of Professor Leon Tikly’s new book on…

The Rwanda Engagement Workshop is taking place at the Nobleza Hotel, Kigali, on Thursday 12th March 2020, starting at 10:30am. Among other things it will introduce the TESF programme, address key challenges, opportunities and priorities,…

March - April 2020, various locations; To explore how we can transform education for sustainable futures, come to one of our forthcoming workshops in South Africa: Johannesburg ‐ 10th March Cape Town ‐ 25th March…