Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy

Designing and Facilitating Eco-Spiritual Learning
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-56754-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

This book offers stories and tools for designing and facilitating transformative sustainability pedagogy and explores how educators can intentionally design and facilitate eco-spiritual learning that promotes healing and wholeness. In these times of accelerating climate change and systemic injustice, we need learning spaces that both challenge our unsustainable dominant paradigms and support us in re-learning how to live in relational and regenerative ways. Rooted in the paradigm of interconnection and relationality, this book offers practical ways to design and facilitate learning toward more just, ecological, and spiritual ways of being. The author weaves together a variety of personal stories of teaching and learning, an exploration of how new science can be applied to transformative sustainability pedagogy, and eco-spiritual practices to help educators nurture wholeness and connection in themselves and in learning spaces.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burns, Heather

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Gesundheitspädagogik, Umweltpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Privatschulen, alternative Schulformen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Tending the Paradigm Shift.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Transformative Learning and New Science.- 3. Nurturing Spirit.- 4. Shedding the Newtonian.- 5. Re-Storying: Finding the Language to Reconnect.- 6. Identity and Privilege: Moving from Separation to Interconnection.- 7. On Not Changing the World.- 8. Emergence.- 9. Decolonizing Time (in the Era of Coronavirus).- Part II  Fostering Transformative Eco-spiritual Learning Spaces.- 10. Slowing Down, Non-doing, and Being Enough.- 11. Self-Compassion and Synchronicity.- 12. Rest: A Radical Sabbatical.- 13. Coherence in the Learning Field.- 14. Intuition.- 15. Nurturing Mindful and Relational Learning.- 16. Control and Letting Go.- 17. Interbeing and Self-Care.- 18. Extravagant Grace.- 19. Holding Space.- Part III Tools for Designing Transformative Eco-spiritual Learning.- 20. Emergent Ecological Design: A Practical Tool.- 21. The Burns Model of Sustainability Pedagogy.

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Burns is Associate Professor in the Leadership for Sustainability Education graduate program at Portland State University, USA. Her scholarship has focused on sustainability pedagogy, including the roles of transformative learning, contemplative inquiry, whole-person learning, ecological design, and deep ecology in creating sustainable change.