Alice Cutler ‘s piece frames a call for critical pedagogy and popular education in the context of the recently released film, ‘The Age of Stupid’, whose narrator asks, from the future, why climate change wasn’t dealt with when we had the chance.
Cutler suggests that the university can offer the opportunity to utilise the practice‐based critical thinking of critical pedagogy to develop solutions to the grave problem of climate change.
Cutler refutes the idea that predominates today in Higher Education that education should train students to compete in a global economy.