- Title
- Utopianism and educational processes in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: a critical reflection
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437367
- Identifier
- vital:73373
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-9086860937
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866915_007
- Description
- South Africa and its recent political transformation pro-cess, infused with hope for a better future, is often pre-sented as a utopian form of democracy – or an icon of hope – nationally and in the contemporary global land-scape. Similarly, adult hopes for youth, and youth idealism itself, are often utopian in nature, and young people are often iconised in society as the hope for the future. Re-cent international policy literature on education for sus-tainable development puts forward the utopian concepts of sustainable development and transformed learning (UNESCO 2005a) as objects for educational thinking and practice, and ethical codes such as the Earth Charter (www.earthcharter.org) present useful visions and guid-ance on how to think about and create a better world. But, the realities of the day keep such utopianism in check. Today, South Africa is experiencing xenophobic vio-lence, extreme levels of crime, and continued disenfran-chisement.
- Format
- 18 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Wageningen Academic
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2009. Utopianism and educational processes in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: a critical reflection. In Young people, education, and sustainable development (pp. 43-61). Wageningen Academic
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