From Consumer Kids to Sustainable Childhood

Formal education is a central force in shaping children’s values, thoughts and ambitions. But increasingly the media and marketers are just as influential, if not more, in shaping childhood.

This symposium will examine how unsustainable lifestyles are passed on from one generation to the next by the influence of media, marketers and others.

The overall aim is to provide advice: How do we raise up our children so that they no longer grow up learning to be consumers but instead learn to become guardians of sustainable living?

The symposium is free of charge but registration is required by 9 November 2012.