Overview
- Challenges the rhetoric-reality gap between Education for Sustainable Development and community development
- Attempts to hear the unheard voices that can identify the diverse knowledge and learnings in a local community
- Enriches the practice of critical ethnography in the ESD study
Part of the book series: Education for Sustainability (EDFSU, volume 6)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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ESD within Socially-Critical Approach—Light and Shadow
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Front Matter
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ESD Beyond Socially-Critical Approach—Decoloniality
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About this book
This book bridges the gap between Education for Sustainable Development and community development and examines the contributions of critical environmental education as a theoretical framework to the policy, research, and practice of Education for Sustainable Development. The book investigates what Education for Sustainable Development really means when it happens from the perspectives of a marginalized individual at the very bottom of society in a local community, where there is no such ‘educational’ institution, no policy or no curriculum to support the effort, but there is the necessity of learning and empowerment for changing the situation. In particular, drawing on the experience of the indigenous Ainu fisherman, it critically examines the theoretical foundation of Education for Sustainable Development, critical environmental education, investigating methodologically and epistemologically the relevance and efficacy of critical environmental education to socially critical approaches to Education for Sustainable Development in a community development context. And this investigation leads to develop a praxis framework for socially critical Education for Sustainable Development in a community development context so that both fields would be mutually supportive to strengthen the practices.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Fumiko Noguchi is currently a research fellow at the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Program at the UNU-IAS. Born in Tokyo, Noguchi received an undergraduate degree in international economics and finance from Tsuda University. After her first career experience in banking in Japan, she moved to Australia to obtain a Master’s degree in Environmental Education at Griffith University. Since then, she has lived, worked, and studied in Japan and Australia. She completed her Ph.D. in ESD at RMIT University. She has gained extensive experience in practice, policy advocacy, research, teaching, and module development for ESD in the Asia-Pacific region for over twenty years. Throughout, she has consistently taken a community-based approach, valuing indigenous and local knowledge and learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Education for Sustainable Development in a Local Community Context
Authors: Fumiko Noguchi
Series Title: Education for Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9464-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9463-9Published: 22 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9466-0Published: 23 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9464-6Published: 21 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2367-1769
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1777
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 145
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental and Sustainability Education, Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics