Transformative Sustainability Education

<p>This book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being.</p><p>Elizabeth A. Lange advocates for a new approach to environmental and sustainability education that of rethinking the Western way of knowing and being and engendering a frank discussion about the societal elements that are generating climate environmental economic and social issues. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous and life-giving cultures the book covers educational theory transformation stories of adult learners social and economic critique and visions of changemakers. Each chapter also has a strong pedagogical element with entry points for learners and embodied practices and examples of taking action at micro/meso/macro levels woven throughout. Overall this book enacts a relational approach to transformative sustainability education that draws from post humanist theory process thought relational ontology decolonization theory Indigenous philosophy and a spirituality that builds a sense of sacred towards the living world.</p><p>Written in an imaginative storytelling manner this book will be a great resource for formal and nonformal environmental and sustainability educators.</p>