- Title
- Research for the people, by the people: The political practice of cognitive justice and transformative learning in environmental social movements
- Creator
- Burt, Jane C
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/392177
- Identifier
- vital:68728
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205611"
- Description
- This paper describes how Changing Practice courses, developed by environmental activists in South Africa and based on social learning practice, have seeded cognitive justice action. For the educator-activists who facilitated these courses, it became apparent that we needed a bold emancipatory pedagogy which included cognitive justice issues. This enabled us and the activist-researcher participants to understand the extent to which local, indigenous, and spiritual knowledge had been excluded from water governance. The paper investigates how participants in the ‘Water and Tradition’ change project, established by the Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance (VEJA, engaged with cognitive justice, to demonstrate how African spiritual practice offers a re-visioning of the natural world. Finally, using the tools of critical realist theory, the paper reviews how VEJA bring about transformative social action through their participation in the Changing Practice course.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (20 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Sustainability, Burt, J., 2019. Research for the people, by the people: The political practice of cognitive justice and transformative learning in environmental social movements. Sustainability, 11(20), p.5611, Sustainability volume 11 number 20 p. 5611 2019 2071-1050
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the MDPI Open Access Statement (https://www.int-res.com/journals/terms-of-use/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Burt, Jane Caroline (Ms)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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