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TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN ACTION
In this moment of epochal shift, it is vital to pursue ways of thinking, being and working
that are life-giving.
Transformative learning is one of the most important endeavours of adulthood,
helping us rethink and renew our operating assumptions.
Through transformative learning, we can become life-giving people relearning
our way back into harmony with the Earth.
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PRAISE FOR BOOK
Transformative Sustainability Education
I have just finished reading Transformative Sustainability Education. I am blown about by its comprehensive scope – its breadth and its depth. I am touched by the way arguments are presented with love and concern. It’s deeply personal and political, with inspirational pedagogical approaches from which educators, teaching across the life course, will learn, unlearn, relearn. This is one of those ‘must have’ books as you will go back to it over and over again.
Professor Emerita Shirley Walters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and President of PIMA.
Lange is bold in the task she undertakes, and this boldness inspires! With the Copernican Revolution, Nicolas Copernicus changed our worldview from an earth-centered universe to a heliocentric one. Lange challenges us to change our worldview again, this time from the mechanistic clock-like universe of to a relational view of interconnected systems. This book is a “labour of love” moving Lange’s pen in a flow state, only possible Csikszentmihalyi says, when we have put in our ten thousand hours. It is this flow state that carries one to read what might otherwise be a tedious history; but this version has such life and passion that it moves through the reader. This book is quite a ride. Strap in and get ready!
Dr. Betsy Jardine, Cape Breton University, Canada
This book asks educators to accept a vanguard role in questioning and replacing the dominant narratives of consumption and growth. The curriculum for doing so is the book itself, which immerses the reader in its title, namely, a transformative sustainability education experience. One can also consider the entire book as a deeply self-reflective exegesis on how formal educators can shed their complicity in unsustainability by contributing to a vision for the radical reconstruction of education, both as institution and teacher.
Robert Vanwynsberghe, Professor, Education for Sustainability Program, University of British Columbia, Canada
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