- Title
- Exploring critical realist insights into transformative environmental learning processes in contexts of social-ecological risk
- Creator
- Schudel, Ingrid J
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437045
- Identifier
- vital:73326
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781315660899
- Identifier
- https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Realism-Environmental-Learning-and-Social-Ecological-Change/Price-Lotz-Sistka/p/book/9780367597689
- Description
- Environment and sustainability are continually recognized for significance to the future of planetary well-being. But the com-plex, cross-cutting transversal nature and associated ‘new-ness’1 of environment and sustainability concerns within edu-cation and training systems raise a number of challenges for education and training systems. In this chapter I explore how critical realist dialectics can help to more fully explain the ab-sence of intermediate pathways in the environment and sus-tain able development ‘sector’ in South Africa and through this analysis raise opportunities for creating more seamless envi-ronmental learning pathways into green jobs, enhancing social justice potential and public good concerns. The chapter situ-ates the discussion within the South African policy discourse of meaningful learning pathways (DHET, 2010) through a study of two priority scarce skills occupations in the environmental sector (environmental scientist and environmental technician). This is used as an example to illustrate systemic disjunctures that demonstrate how environmental learning pathways in and for sustain able development emerge. Using a critical realist lens to understand the absences that denote a relationship away from being allows the chapter to conceptualize absence as central to the real and hence to being (Lotz-Sisitka and Ramsarup, 2012; Bhaskar, 1993). Privileging absence allows me to develop a vantage point that connects being to becom-ing and hence underlines the intent for change inherent within this research. Norrie (2010, p. 28) states that ‘understanding change as a process of absenting of absences as well as the absenting of those structural constraints that keep absences in place . . . lies at the core of change’.
- Format
- 19 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Schudel, I.J., 2015. Exploring critical realist insights into transformative environmental learning processes in contexts of social-ecological risk. In Critical realism, environmental learning and social-ecological change (pp. 254-272). Routledge
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