Transformative Education for Regeneration and Wellbeing
Transformative Education for Regeneration and Wellbeing

Author: Janet J. McIntyre-Mills

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-29

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9811932581

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The edited volume advocates for teaching systemic ethics as a form of life-long learning within nature’s classroom to support social and environmental justice. This book also explains critical systemic thinking as both an individual and a collective responsibility through many ways of knowing spanning the arts and sciences to inspire creativity. This volume contributes to theory and practice by making suggestions as to how to re-frame the content, structure and process of education for transformation. This volume makes a case for a more relational understanding of human beings and other species. This volume also explores a more integrated curriculum where learners are given the opportunity to explore many ways of knowing and learning to earn, learn and grow a future through circular economies, co-operatives and learning communities. This book highlights how the models of sustainable development focus on education for wellbeing in line with the UNESCO approach outlined in 2021 that emphasizes the systemic nature of education rooted in protecting the environment and supported by the participation of active global citizens. This volume demonstrates transformation of our thinking and practice is overdue and calls for changing the narrative through our standing together and redesigning systems of education to prioritize a more holistic worldview that embraces the planet and living systems. The focus of this volume is on values, perspectives and ways to make a difference through addressing a range of practical concerns, such as: food, energy and water security. Ontologically the editors' perspective is shaped by recognising kinship with nature, as expressed by Indigenous custodians. Epistemologically the editors and contributors to this volume explore ways to enhance education based on working across cultures and disciplines using a cross cultural approach and mixed methodology. Axiologically the editors support the notion of transformative research that promotes balancing non-anthropocentrism with an approach that draws on Indigenous wisdom whilst addressing patriarchal notions through gender mainstreaming.

Designing Regenerative Cultures
Designing Regenerative Cultures

Author: Daniel Christian Wahl

Publisher: Triarchy Press

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1909470791

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This is a ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what’s wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures – and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large.

Transformative Learning for a New Worldview
Transformative Learning for a New Worldview

Author: M. G. Jackson

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2008-01-17

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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List of Figures p. ix Preface p. x Part I Transformative Learning in Contemporary Global Culture 1 Introduction p. 3 2 Contradictions, Incoherence and Confusion p. 11 Contradictions, incoherence and confusion in the school classroom p. 11 An alternative approach to environmental education p. 14 Gaia theory and cultural transformation p. 20 Coming to grips with sustainability p. 25 3 Learning to Think Differently p. 27 An adequate terminology for learning to think differently p. 28 An overview of the process p. 31 Critical elements of the process p. 33 4 Atoms, People and Other Things p. 47 The enlightenment answers to the perennial questions p. 48 Critique p. 49 5 The Laws of Nature p. 62 The laws of nature - an overview p. 63 Understanding the concept of law as immanent through myth p. 72 6 A Flawed System of Ideas p. 80 Incoherence p. 81 Contradiction p. 82 The origin of the concept of the detached observer p. 83 7 Alternative Assumptions p. 87 The world as a process p. 87 Everything is radically interconnected with everything else p. 95 Detached participation p. 99 8 A Return to the Perennial Questions p. 102 What is real? p. 103 What is the world like? p. 106 A little more about terminology p. 112 9 Towards a New Cultural Model p. 116 Community p. 119 Science p. 125 An adequate theory of history p. 135 Part II Transformative Learning in Post-colonial Societies 10 Transform, Reform, Reaffirm p. 145 The impact of colonialism p. 146 Interpreting the past, visualising the future p. 149 A fresh anchorage p. 161 Part III Transformative Learning in Practice 11 Secure Their Foundation p. 165 The process of cultural transformation p. 165 Priorities today p. 174 A variety of possible transformative learning exercises p. 175 The facilitator p. 177 Some suggestions for planning and conducting transformative learning exercises p. 180 Suggestions for each step in the transformative learning course p. 183 Appendix 1 Pesticide Use and Human Health p. 189 Appendix 2 Pests p. 192 Notes p. 195 References p. 200 Index p. 206.

The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education
The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education

Author: Wendy Steele

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3030735753

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This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the heart of “sustainable development” is the legacy of unsustainable development with its roots in modernity and colonialism. Critical engagement with the SDGs involves recognising these roots are shared by universities and the reciprocal need for maintenance, repair and regeneration. Universities are not just enablers of change, but also important targets of change. By focusing on the role of education about, for and through the SDGs, the authors seek to advance critical engagement with higher education that is both progressive and meaningful. We are all responsible for bearing witness to our age. This book will appeal to all those who hope that more sustainable future worlds are still possible.

Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy
Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy

Author: Heather Burns

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2024-05-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783031567513

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This book offers stories and tools for designing and facilitating transformative sustainability pedagogy and explores how educators can intentionally design and facilitate eco-spiritual learning that promotes healing and wholeness. In these times of accelerating climate change and systemic injustice, we need learning spaces that both challenge our unsustainable dominant paradigms and support us in re-learning how to live in relational and regenerative ways. Rooted in the paradigm of interconnection and relationality, this book offers practical ways to design and facilitate learning toward more just, ecological, and spiritual ways of being. The author weaves together a variety of personal stories of teaching and learning, an exploration of how new science can be applied to transformative sustainability pedagogy, and eco-spiritual practices to help educators nurture wholeness and connection in themselves and in learning spaces.

Handbook on Religion and Health
Handbook on Religion and Health

Author: James R. Cochrane

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1802207996

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This revelatory Handbook explores the relationship between religion and health, emphasising the effects of organised religion and spirituality on community, population, and public health. While comprehensively summarising the current state of the field, it focusses on pursuing new pathways vital for human health in a turbulent world.

Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis
Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis

Author: Richard Hil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-22

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1000486028

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This book calls into question the colonial and neoliberal university, presenting alternative models of higher education that can more effectively respond to today’s intersecting social, economic, environmental and political crises. The authors argue that universities should be driven by a different set of core values – one that promotes the common good over private or commercial interests, individualism and market fundamentalism. Presenting a broad range of educational initiatives from around the world that reflect life-affirming regenerative and relational practices, Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, and principles of social and ecological justice, the authors contend that pathways toward transforming higher education already exist within and without the university. This task, say the authors, is urgent and necessary if universities and other institutions are to hold relevance in a rapidly changing global environment. This book makes a unique contribution to critiques of the modern, neoliberal university by looking for alternatives within and beyond traditional institutions of higher education. In doing so, the authors dismantle the longstanding 'ivory tower' image of the university, instead resituating education within broader social and ecological communities. Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis is aimed at all those who have a direct or indirect interest and stake in universities, from the general reader to futurists, ecologists as well as students, academics, administrators, managers, policy makers and politicians.