Education for Sustainability: Transformative Learning for a Post-Growth Future

• Authors: Marta Dobrzyniak

Abstracts

EN

Learning plays a crucial role in overcoming difficulties and breakdowns caused by climate change. Sustainability which means giving support or relief to the planet is the focal issue of the paper. It is presented from the perspective of the last over 50 years. Several theories set the stage for learning recommendations, including Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope, the critical theory and transformative sustainability learning. The hope for a better understanding of the nature of challenges that lie ahead, stronger involvement and more creative innovations initiated by humanity is expressed in the context of expected changes to be considered in scholarship and beyond.

Keywords

EN

climate change; critical wisdom; education; post-growth future; sustainability; transformation

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Viae Educationis
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 39-45

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Marta Dobrzyniak

• University of Life Sciences in Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000189978715

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ve.2024.01.05

Biblioteka Nauki

61682287