Janna Goebel is an assistant professor of sustainability education in the College of Global Futures, School of Sustainability and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She graduated with a PhD in educational policy and evaluation from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU in 2020. As a Global Development Research Scholar, and with the support of First Solar and the United States Agency for International Development, Goebel completed her dissertation research based on her time on family-owned coffee plantations in Southeastern Brazil.
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Goebel's work focuses on the ways that education can be conceptualized beyond the human and explores how relationships among humans and the more-than-human world matter in how we approach sustaining life on Earth. She has expertise in inclusive education practices and sustainability education. Her work critiques an education for economic growth model that pushes aside other ways of knowing and being in harmony with nature and the environment. Dr. Goebel's research tracks related to inclusive education, narrative storytelling, arts-based methods, and nature-based learning.
Fields of expertise: Education, Environmental policy / climate change