Overview
- Advocates for teaching systemic ethics as a form of life-long learning within nature’s classroom
- Highlights critical systemic thinking as both an individual and a collective responsibility
- Contributes to theory and practice by making suggestions as to how to re-frame education for transformation
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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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 theeditors 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.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Education Thinking and Practice
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Extending the ‘Frontiers of Justice’
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Learning in 360 Degrees
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes (PhD Sociology) is an International Gender Consultant and a Principal Research Fellow in the Social Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University. She is also an Associate of the Gender Consortium at Flinders University and Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. She engages with some of the major issues facing women globally and specialises in gender specific research in non-western countries in the field of development and international politics, dealing with issues such as gender equality, human rights, gender-based violence, sustainable development, terrorism and conflict. She wrote a seminal work on Central Asian women entitled Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition which was published by Zed Books and is now in its 12th edition. She is presently working on a book about women resistance fighters in the American War in Vietnam. Recently, she has published From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions, Springer (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transformative Education for Regeneration and Wellbeing
Book Subtitle: A Critical Systemic Approach to Support Multispecies Relationships and Pathways to Sustainable Environments
Editors: Janet J. McIntyre-Mills, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3258-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3257-1Published: 30 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3260-1Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3258-8Published: 29 September 2022
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVII, 500
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Studies, Public Policy, International Relations, Political Science, Regional/Spatial Science