- Title
- Utopianism and educational processes in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184756
- Identifier
- vital:44269
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://cjee.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/866"
- Description
- Recent international policy literature on Education for Sustainable Development puts forward utopian concepts of sustainable development and transformed learning as objects for educational thinking and practice. This paper, drawing on three illustrative educational investigations with youth in a South African context, critically examines how we might engage with utopian concepts such as those put forward in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. It incorporates an engagement with other related utopian concepts such as democracy and social justice, which feature strongly in post-apartheid societal reconstruction in South Africa. The paper argues that if we are to avoid valuable utopian concepts such as democracy, sustainability, and social justice from becoming doxic knowledge, a reflexive realist orientation might best guide our educational engagements with such concepts. Such an approach to utopianism would take account of contextual realities and situated learning processes, and foster a creativity of action that is constructivist in nature, but not relativist.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (19 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Lakehead University
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2008. Utopianism and educational processes in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (CJEE), 13(1), pp.134-152, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education volume 13 number 1 p.134 2009 1205-5352
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education Copyright Statement (https://cjee.lakeheadu.ca/about/submissions#privacyStatement)
- Rights
- Open Access
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