Learning and Sustainability in Dangerous Times

Stephen Sterling is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education at the Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth.

• Foreword by David W. OrrIntroductionPart I: The view from here1. Choosing the future2. Probable or preferable futures: the responsibility of education3. Setting out the stall: propositions and key ideasPart II – Platform pieces4. Planetary primacy and the necessity of positive dis-illusion (2019)5. Educating for the future we want (2021)Part III – Re- thinking education6. Assuming the future: repurposing education in a volatile age (2017)7. Sustainable education (2009)8. Learning for resilience, or the resilient learner? Towards a necessary reconciliation in a paradigm of sustainable education (2010)Part IV – Re- thinking our thinking9. Transformative learning and sustainability: sketching the conceptual ground (2011)10. At variance with reality: how to re-think our thinking (2014)11. Why “the environment” can be a misleading myth (2020)12. Towards ecological intelligence: viewing the world relationally (2009)13. Let’s face the music and dance? (2012)Part V – Change-ability14. Vision and practice15. Afterword: the call of participation

Education is at a watershed: either we drift along with today’s mechanistic, maladapted status quo, tweaking the curriculum here and there as we head towards an ecological abyss, or we work with active agents of change to transform the entire educational system. Stephen Sterling has been at the heart of this debate for 50 years, and has become the go-to philosopher and thought leader for everyone who cares about the future of education and of life on Earth.