Seonaigh MacPherson

Education and Sustainability

Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically explores the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity, examining the overlapping and distinctive sustainability challenges facing Indigenous and minority communities when they are connected by and within diasporas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415847292
• ISBN-10: 041584729X
• Artikelnr.: 37086518

Autorenporträt

Seonaigh MacPherson, Ph.D., served as an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Manitoba and an Adjunct Professor of Research at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia before accepting her current position at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She is co-founder and co-editor with Zvi Bekerman of the Routledge journal Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Critical Sustainability in the Aftermath of Education
Section 1: Critical Contexts: What is at Stake? 1. Diversity 2. Ecological
Knowledge 3. Liberation and Enlightenment 4. Learning to Love / Loving to
Learn Section 2: Critical Issues and Cases: Education as a Sustainability
Challenge 5. The Hidden Curriculum of Assimilation 6. Curriculum, Teaching,
and Learning as a Sustainability Challenge 7. Language Education as a
Sustainability Challenge 8. Consciousness as a Sustainability Challenge 9.
Identity and Identification as a Sustainability Challenge 10. Migration as
a Sustainability Challenge Section 3: Critical Responses: Educating to
Sustain Generations 11. Global Ecological Citizenship Education 12. Towards
a "Deep" Democratic Education for Sustainable Development