Finding Soil in an Age of Climate Trouble: Designing a New Compass for Education with Arendt and Latour

In this article, we address the issue of how we can give an educational answer to the current global environmental crisis. We believe that Arendt’s definition of the ‘essence of education’ is still highly relevant because of its attention to the possibility of the world’s future renewal. Therefore, we read Arendt together with Bruno Latour, who draws attention to how particular (mis)understandings of the notion ‘world’, both in its spatial and temporal dimensions, play a role in the crisis at hand. By reading both together, we hope to develop an educational response to our current predicament.