Adult learning for citizenship needs to respond to rapid global change which is economic, political, social, cultural and ecological. The destruction of the environment, and the various initiatives and actions, by individuals, communities, organisations and movements like the Climate Change school ‘strikers’ and Extinction Rebellion, set a bold and urgent context to repurposing adult citizenship education andContinue reading “Sustainability needs new approaches to adult learning: a role for citizens’ assemblies.”
Category Archives: Education
HOW ALL LIFE IS INTERCONNECTED AND WHY IT MATTERS
There is currently a burgeoning literature on our life support system-the biosphere. Moreover, it is coming at a time when we are being alerted to an eco-apocalyptic countdown but with little understanding of how and when a global tipping point will impact on our very survival. For the first time in our history, we canContinue reading “HOW ALL LIFE IS INTERCONNECTED AND WHY IT MATTERS”
SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSFORMATION
Our civilisation, as we know it, is at an historical tipping point, because of the environmental wreckage we are causing in the planetary biosphere. Planetary biophysical limits will determine the future of our world and, as things stand, this may well be characterised by huge discontinuities for human and natural systems, caused by widespreadContinue reading “SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSFORMATION”
Educating Earth Literate Leaders
We are now citizens of the Earth joined in a common enterprise with many variations. We have every right to insist that those who purport to lead us be worthy of the task. Imagine such a time! (Orr, 2003) Hundreds of delegates met late in 2019 in Madrid(Cop25) to discuss climate change and the UN’sContinue reading “Educating Earth Literate Leaders”
PREFACE TO THE DAS GUPTA REVIEW ON THE ECONOMICS OF BIODIVERSITY
We are facing a global crisis. We are totally dependent upon the natural world. It supplies us with every oxygen-laden breath we take and every mouthful of food we eat. But we are currently damaging it so profoundly that many of its natural systems are now on the verge of breakdown. Every other animal livingContinue reading “PREFACE TO THE DAS GUPTA REVIEW ON THE ECONOMICS OF BIODIVERSITY”
Quality Standards and Sustainability in our Universities
The link between quality and sustainable development is probably best exemplified in the following quote: “Human relationships based on naked self-interest (e.g., greed, envy or lust for power) maintain inequitable distribution of wealth, generate conflict and lead to scant regard for the future availability of natural resources.” An education system which mirrors these values isContinue reading “Quality Standards and Sustainability in our Universities”
What’s in a name? – why ‘the environment’ can be a misleading myth
Guest blog by Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education, University of Plymouth I see myself as an environmentalist. And have done so ever since my early teens – which was a long time ago. So why would I be writing a blog with such a title? On the face of things, perhaps it seemsContinue reading “What’s in a name? – why ‘the environment’ can be a misleading myth”
Sustainability Leadership
THE POSITIVE DEVIANT: SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP in a PERVERSE WORLD by SARA PARKIN EARTHSCAN 2010 This is a review I wrote for the Institution of Environmental Sciences in 2010-It has even more relevance to our current existential predicament now. So much of what we do is unsustainable and there seems to be a paucity of sustainabilityContinue reading “Sustainability Leadership”
Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change
Edited by Arjen E.J. Wals and Peter Blaze Corcoran. Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2012. 550 pages. (€) 69.00 (hardback) ISBN: 978-90-8686-203-0. I reviewed this massive book for the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development in 2012 and set it in the context of a prescient album by the Indie Group ILiKETRAiNS: “And we regret theContinue reading “Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change”
Twelve Principles for Reinventing the 21 Century University
Universities are much in the news, but it is not good news. The rise in the pandemic R number in the UK is having a profound impact on university students as they return in their thousands to campuses to find in many of them that they face total lockdown. So, no immersive quality campus experienceContinue reading “Twelve Principles for Reinventing the 21 Century University”
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