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This paper contributes to the debate about the absence of nonhuman animals (The term 'nonhuman animal' is used to emphasise the interconnection with the human being, viewed as a human animal. Using this terminology does not avoid a homogenising, stereotyping and simplifying of a multiplicity of animal (and human) beings. Nonetheless, we think that such a 'simplification' of concepts is inescapable in academic discussions concerning humans and nonhuman animals.) in environmental and sustainable education (ESE) and the challenge of the anthropocentric characterisation of European education. Relating to the debate about a pluralistic approach in ESE as a 'one-species only pluralism', we draw on Val Plumwood's ecofeministic dialogical interspecies ethics and Rosi Braidotti's understanding of a posthuman/ nomadic subjectivity. By regarding 'difference' as a constituting force, we present a 'critical pluralistic' approach to human-animal relationships in ESE. Instead of drawing new lines of moral consideration for nonhuman beings, an ethical and political appreciation of what nonhuman others can do in ESE is suggested. Recommendations for educational practice are to recognise nonhuman agency to reveal political and ethical dimensions, recognise the agency of non-living animals and stay in conflicts and 'study up' and develop an immanent critique, which could lead to alternative pedagogical approaches to human-animal relationships in different cross-curricula settings.

School is assumed to equip students with subject knowledge and contribute to their development as human beings and democratic citizens as well. In this article, the democratic dimension of the teaching assignment is brought to the fore, and an analysis tool for investigating students' conversations on socioscientific issues that emphasises democratic aspects is presented. The DEQUAL-tool, where the acronyms stand for DEliberative QUALities, comprises both the content-related and formal aspects of the conversations, with a specific emphasis on the collective expressions of democratic qualities like questioning, consideration for others and conveying different dimensions and arguments. DEQUAL is based on an intersubjective and communicative understanding of democracy and meaning-making, and is theoretically inspired by John Dewey's and Jürgen Habermas' views on these matters. The development and function of DEQUAL is clarified using excerpts from upper secondary school students talking about how living in a certain place influences the greenhouse effect. By pointing out characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of students' group-conversations, this methodological proposal can provide further guidance for an integrative understanding of the teacher's assignment in science education.

Kontroverzní debaty o vzdělávání pro udržitelný rozvoj se přenášejí do oblasti výzkumné – v tomto případě je tématem oblast Foucaultova konceptu moci a znalostí. Autoři hledají souvislosti s jednáním vycházejícím z těchto skrytých předpokladů a domýšlejí důsledky pro vzdělávací praxi. ; The debate concerning the pros and cons of ESD has mainly been conducted on the grounds of principle. The question is how, and to what extent, misgivings about ESD and its expectations are actually manifested. The purpose of this paper is to suggest an approach that can contribute empirical knowledge to this debate. The suggested approach is related to the research field of governmentality and Foucault's ideas about power and knowledge. It focuses on the way students are governed in ESD practice and explores which understanding of future development is privileged in this practice.

Introduction : sustainable development teaching : ethical and political challenges / Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman and Johan Öhman -- Four misunderstandings about sustainability and transitions / Thomas Block and Erik Paredis -- Tackling wicked problems in teaching and learning : sustainability issues as knowledge, ethical and political challenges / Thomas Block, Katrien Van Poeck and Leif Östman -- Principles for sustainable development teaching / Leif Östman, Katrien Van Poeck and Johan Öhman -- Sustainable development teaching in view of qualification, socialisation and person-formation / Katrien Van Poeck and Leif Östman -- Different teaching traditions in environmental and sustainability education / Johan Öhman and Leif Östman -- The ethical tendency typology : ethical and moral situations in environmental and sustainability education / Johan Öhman and Leif Östman -- A pragmatist perspective on value education / Johan Öhman and David O. Kronlid -- The political tendency typology : different ways in which the political dimension of sustainability issues appears in educational practice / Michael Håkansson, Katrien Van Poeck and Leif Östman -- Deliberation and agonism : two different approaches to the political dimension of environmental and sustainability education / Ásgeir Tryggvason and Johan Öhman -- A transactional theory on sustainability learning / Leif Östman, Katrien Van Poeck and Johan Öhman -- A transactional theory on sustainability teaching : teacher moves / Leif Östman, Katrien Van Poeck and Johan Öhman -- Ethical moves : how teachers can open-up a space for articulating moral reactions and deliberating on ethical opinions regarding sustainability issues / Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman and Johan Öhman -- Political moves : how teachers can open-up for and handle poignant experiences of the conflictual aspects of sustainability issues / Katrien Van Poeck and Leif Östman -- Classroom discussions : students' learning in argumentation about ethical and political aspects of sustainability issues / Karin Rudsberg and Johan Öhman -- Power and governance in environmental and sustainability education practice / Marie Öhman and Johan Öhman -- Teaching as a matter of staging encounters with literary texts in environmental and sustainability education / Petra Hansson -- Taking-up ethical global issues in the classroom / Louise Sund and Karen Pashby -- Students as political subjects in discourses on sustainable development : a glimpse from Sarah's classroom / Iann Lundegård -- Embodied experiences of "decision-making" in face of uncertain and complex sustainability issues / Pernilla Andersson -- Political emotions in environmental and sustainability education / Ásgeir Tryggvason and Andreas Mårdh.

Continued unsustainability and surpassed planetary boundaries require not only scientific and technological advances, but deep and enduring social and cultural changes. The purpose of this article is to contribute a theoretical approach to understand conditions and constraints for societal change towards sustainable development. In order to break with unsustainable norms, habits, practices, and structures, there is a need for learning for transformation, not only adaption. Based on a critical literature review within the field of learning for sustainable development, our approach is a development of the concept of transformative learning, by integrating three additional dimensions—Institutional Structures, Social Practices, and Conflict Perspectives. This approach acknowledges conflicts on macro, meso, and micro levels, as well as structural and cultural constraints. It contends that transformative learning is processual, interactional, long-term, and cumbersome. It takes place within existing institutions and social practices, while also transcending them. The article adopts an interdisciplinary social science perspective that acknowledges the importance of transformative learning in order for communities, organizations, and individuals to be able to deal with global sustainability problems, acknowledging the societal and personal conflicts involved in such transformation.