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Teetering on the Brink: Subversive and Restorative Learning in Times of Climate Turmoil and Disaster
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Selby, David; Kagawa, Fumiyo – Journal of Transformative Education, 2018
Unchecked climate change poses a self-inflicted existential risk to humanity as it exacerbates the multiple-crisis syndrome facing global society. In international policy, education for sustainable development is widely flagged as transformative. To realize that transformative potential, sustainability educators are exploring the nexus between…
Descriptors: Climate, Transformative Learning, Risk, Sustainable Development
Vocational Education and Training for African Development: A Literature Review
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McGrath, Simon; Ramsarup, Presha; Zeelen, Jacques; Wedekind, Volker; Allais, Stephanie; Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Monk, David; Openjuru, George; Russon, Jo-Anna – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
The SDGs mark the clearest global acceptance yet that the previous approach to development was unsustainable. In VET, UNESCO has responded by developing a clear account of how a transformed VET must be part of a transformative approach to development. It argues that credible, comprehensive skills systems can be built that can support individuals,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Transformative Learning, Educational Change, Economic Development
Towards Using Transformative Education as a Benchmark for Clarifying Differences and Similarities between Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development
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Pavlova, Margarita – Environmental Education Research, 2013
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) charges educators with a key role in developing and "securing sustainable life chances, aspirations and futures for young people". Environmental Education (EE) and ESD share a vision of quality education and a society that lives in balance with Earth's carrying capacity,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Consciousness Raising
Revisiting the "Trans-Human" Gestalt: Discussing "Nature" and "Development" with Students of Sustainable Business
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Kopnina, Helen – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2014
This article explores the perceptions of development through metaphor use by students of International Business Management Studies at The Hague University. Students' reflections upon the concepts of nature and development before and after educational intervention are examined through discourse analysis and narrative analysis. Results show that…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, International Trade, Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language
Adult Education and Social Responsibility: Reconciling the Irreconcilable? 2nd Revised Edition. Studies in Pedagogy, Andragogy and Gerontagogy, Vol. 36.
Wildemeersch, Danny, Ed.; Finger, Matthias, Ed.; Jansen, Theo, Ed. – 2000
In this book, 16 authors from Europe, Africa, and the United States reflect on the transformations that are currently taking place in the field of adult and continuing education. The 12 chapters are "Reconciling the Irreconcilable? Adult and Continuing Education Between Personal Development, Corporate Concerns, and Public Responsibility"…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Education