Bulgarian Centre for Sustainable Local Development and Ecopedagogy

Department Member, Sustainable Local Development and Ecopedagogy

Founder and President of the Bulgarian Centre for Sustainable Local Development and Ecopedagogy (BCSLDE)

www.bcslde.org

Thesis Title: Re-imagining and Reconstructing the University and Schools in Trentino for 2035 and Beyond. Sustainability Education – the Language of the Future!

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2012 - "Trainer of Trainers on the Fundamentals of Green Growth Policies", United Nations ESCAP & Asian Institute of Technology

2009-2011 M.A. Degree in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento, Italy.
Specialization in Sustainability Futures Studies and Sustainability Education.

2004-2009 B.A. Degree in Political Science from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
Specialization in Eco-politics and Models of Participatory Democracy.

Currently working on: Ecopedagogy & Sustainability Education; Sustainable Local development; Green economy; Green jobs; Futures Studies in Education, Models of Participatory and Direct Democracy; "Green" Systems of International Relations.


Every honest man is a prophet...
                                  William Blake

We live in a time that synthesizes more than 2000 years of civilizational experience. Our present appears to be the hottest and most dangerous period ever produced by  humans on the Earth. What differs today's global civilization cannot be find so much in politics, culture, ... but in Science, Technology & Nature. Nowadays we confront De-naturalized, killed nature and a time in which we must take care of  science which now looks much like a "Frankenstein complex", as the futurologist John Wren-Lewis  wrote still in  1972 in "Educating Scientists for Tomorrow". As he put it:

I would hold scientists to blame, quite as much as, if not more than, politicians and businessmen, for the fact that research over the past few decades has been so largely channeled into the kind of science and technology which develops bigger and bigger powersources, production systems,  and vehicles, leading to massive urban concentration, massive centralized bureaucratic organizations and massive pollution problems.

As it seems to be, the young generations will be born in a de-naturalized, crazy world, a world of and from technologies,one in which Nature, animals and the natural are rather an exception,or something exotic, and this is already the reality of the advanced societies – we already live in an unnatural, if not anti-natural techno-organized world, world we never imagined when we were kids. The problem now is that the kids can not imagine  natural worlds but imagine de-naturalized techno-worlds.

So, education, science and technology remain the most important things in our civilization to be now naturalized, moralized and humanized.


st.grigorov@gmail.com

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