Lights And Shadows Of Green Comp. The Contribution Of The Sociomaterial Perspective In Reviewing The European Competence Framework For Sustainability

To implement the environmental sustainability goals of the 2030 Agenda, the European Green Deal identified a framework of competencies defined as GreenComp. Although the framework intends to have a systemic approach, its analysis reveals a need to better understand some key concepts such as com-plexity, values, sustainability, to clarify what they actually refer to and the as-sumptions that drive them. They, in fact, are not “neutral” categories but need to be contextualized in their specific contexts. Building on these considerations, this paper aims to explore the GreenComp framework from a sociomaterial per-spective. In fact, this approach highlights the social and material elements con-sidered in the document, reconstructing the concrete dynamics that led to its genesis and offering some insights about its interpretation. The analysis shows that the GreenComp framework is indeed rooted in a cultural substrate that is still human-centered presenting criticalities at the onto-epistemological, meth-odological and ethical-political levels. These considerations invite us to rethink ecological education research and practices by considering the complexity in-volved in the process. This challenges institutional education to set up concrete experiences that allow people to undergo the connections, to promote the de-velopment of an embodied ecological consciousness.