- Title
- Finding ‘pulses of freedom’ in the border zone between higher and public education for sustainable development
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436866
- Identifier
- vital:73311
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780367076436
- Identifier
- https://www.routledge.com/Prioritizing-Sustainability-Education-A-Comprehensive-Approach/Armon-Scoffham-Armon/p/book/9780367076436
- Description
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Higher Edu-cation has long been a subject of discussion (eg Sterling, 2010; Togo and Lotz-Sisitka, 2013; Baarth, Michelsen, Rieckmann, and Thomas, 2016), with an increasing number of arguments being put forward for transformative, and even transgressive (ie transgressing the taken for granted) learning in these contexts (Lotz-Sisitka, Wals, Kronlid, and McGarry, 2015). There is, however, as yet little theoretical or practical work that focuses on the border zone or the interface between Higher Education and Public Education, due perhaps to an overemphasis on internal change in Higher Education settings. Public Education brings sustainable development (SD) into everyday life focus (Von Poeck et al., 2012), as it is here that complex, ‘wicked’ problems (Rittel and Webber, 1973) are ex-perienced. Such problems defy easy resolution. In this chapter I address this gap in the ESD literature by drawing on three cases of public education praxis in the border zone between Higher Education and Public Education: 1) using mobile learn-ing tools to transform markets for small holder farmers; 2) build-ing social learning networks that cross boundaries between colleges, farmers, and universities; and 3) using arts-based creative practice methods for public action. I start with these case stories, exploring them theoretically in order to illuminate new possibilities for ESD praxis in the sections that follow.
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2019. Finding ‘pulses of freedom’in the border zone between higher and public education for sustainable development. Prioritizing Sustainability Education: A Comprehensive Approach, p.24
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