Education for Sustainable Democracy
Brett Levy

This show explores how we can prepare the next generation for informed civic engagement, environmental stewardship, and the development of a more just and peaceful world. Host Brett Levy is a researcher of civic and environmental education and an associate professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Episodes feature interviews with leaders, innovators, and scholars in civic and environmental education. You’ll hear about new classroom-based and online practices that generate students’ involvement in public issues, youth-adult partnerships that improve communities, what research tells us about how to broaden young people’s engagement in environmental issues, and more. Please subscribe and tell a friend about the show. For information about upcoming episodes, guests, and more, please visit www.esdpodcast.org.
Podcasts:
- Helping Youth Become Critical News Consumers, with John Silva and Miriam Romais (News Literacy Project)
- Contained Risk-Taking in Context: Tradeoffs, Constraints, & Opportunities, with Judy Pace (University of San Francisco)
- Integrating History and Current Events & Creating an Open Classroom Climate, with Amber Joseph (East Side Community School, NYC)
- Voice from the Classroom: Teaching the Capitol Riot in a Politically Diverse High School (with Lauren Collet-Gildard, Arlington High School)
- Guiding Productive Political Discussions, with Diana Hess (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Teaching Elections & Modeling Political Tolerance, with Wayne Journell (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- Engagement & Equity in Civic Education, with Professor Jane Lo (Michigan State University)