Host Sam Hopkins (’61) Invites you to hear
Spencer Jourdain (’61), a Cum Laude Graduate in History,
Review a Multicultural Journey

Can We Get to a Sustainable Multicultural Future?

As a pioneer in sustainable development, in 1989 Spencer organized key funding and production components for the world’s first major worldwide television broadcast of the historic United Nations Brundtland (“Our Common Future”) Report, with messages from eight leading heads of state on the urgency of achieving sustainable global development.  From this project, he created a small multiculturally-led initiative for innovative education focusing on action-based sustainable development experiences.  He engaged educators at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to develop teaching and learning programs around “Education for a Sustainable World”.  Over seventeen “1420” action-based teaching and learning projects have been implemented in six states and four countries.  This pedagogy was selected for small group presentation at the 2004 conference in Sweden, launching the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-15).  A model for action-oriented, sustainable development-focused teaching and learning, it is increasingly considered, in both public and private school systems, as a crucial part of 21st century education to achieve a sustainable human future and to save our planet’s critical ecosystem. 

Mr. Jourdain has also written The Dream Dancers, a four volume series illustrating the fundamental importance of our nation’s multi-cultural journey, shaping past, present and future.  He utilizes a thread of historical experiences from the author’s multicultural family background, from 1400 to 2020. 

Professor Cornell West praised this work as “this magisterial labor of love. . . a powerful and needful contribution to our knowledge of great unsung heroes whose courageous witness warrants our immediate attention.  Don’t miss this scholarly gift to all of us!” 

Saturday, December 12^th, from 1 pm to 3 pm Eastern

RSVP to Tom Blodgett by Monday, December 7^th with Jourdain in your subject line, 

and we will send you the Zoom log-in information before the Event.

Thank you.  Hope to see you there.