Teachers of Big History from Cameroon and Hong Kong share their experiences and creative strategies for empowering young people to see the world in all its complexity and joy.

How we see the world is closely connected with how we behave in the world. Hence, changing our perspective leads to changing our lives and relations to environments, and vice versa. This panel seeks to understand how we can better connect Big History’s thoughts with actions. Nobuo Tsujimura argues that Big History is never a human-centric practice. Rather, dynamic round-trips between the human realm and the non-human world bring us new insights, as indigenous people have done for millennia. Rubeth Hipolito and Edcel Canlas highlight the Western-centric tendency of Big History and then consider how we can decolonize it, especially in the Philippine context. However, Big History is more than just a theoretical study. Is there any practical impact of Big History for our reality? Siddhartha clarifies how Big History can be applied to social justice and climate change movements.