Transformative Learning

• Utgivningsdatum: 2021-05-04
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
• Vikt: 431 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 280
• Förlag: New Society Publishers
• ISBN: 9780865719521

• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik
• Utbildningsstrategier och utbildningspolitik
• Pedagogik: historia
• Pedagogisk teori och filosofi

Satish Kumar, long-time peace and environment activist and former Jain monk, has been quietly setting the global agenda of change for over 50 years. He settled in the United Kingdom after an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage and took the editorial helm of Resurgence magazine in 1973, a post he held until 2016. Over the decades, he has been the guiding spirit behind a number of internationally respected ecological and educational ventures including founding Devon's Schumacher College; authoring several books, including Elegant Simplicity; and presenting the documentary Earth Pilgrim. Satish was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Education from the University of Plymouth, an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of Lancaster, and the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Abroad. He appears regularly in the media, is on the Advisory Board of Our Future Planet, and continues to teach and run workshops as a sought-after speaker in the UK and abroad. He lives in Devon, UK. Pavel Cenkl, PhD, is former Dean of Sterling College, Vermont, a researcher on ecologically minded curriculum development, and an environmental philosophy instructor. An avid endurance and adventure runner, through a project called Climate Run, Pavel has covered hundreds of miles in the Arctic and subarctic on foot in order to bring attention to the connections between our bodies and the more-than-human world in the face of a rapidly changing climate. He is author of Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest and This Vast Book of Nature. He is Head of Schumacher College and lives in Devon, UK.

"The essays collected in Transformative Learning illustrate how incredibly successful Satish Kumar's inspired ideas have been in influencing individuals from around the world. It could not be published at a more opportune time as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic to face anew the existential threat of climate change. Creating the shift from a materialistic way of life to a new green economy will not be easy. This book provides some very valuable insights on how we might move in this direction."— Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace"This is how we begin again, even at this late hour. When the pandemic has pulled the plug on our global economy, when all the scientific reports, meetings, and treaties have not lowered by a hair our greenhouse gas emissions, and when the juggernaut of mass extinction threatens all that remains of our biodiversity, we can begin again. We can learn to trust our head and heart and hands, as Schumacher College has explored and proposed over the last thirty years. This book is a good guide as to how we can begin again."— Joanna Macy, author, A Wild Love for the World and Coming Back to Life "Thank you, Satish Kumar, for this rich gift of powerful voices bringing forth an emergent, nature-centered learning essential to life itself. Transformative Learning should be essential reading for all educators and learners."— Frances Moore Lappe, author, Diet for Small Planet and 18 other books, cofounder, Small Planet Institute"Thirty years ago, Schumacher College was founded, not just to teach radical economic and ecological ideas, but to teach them in a new way. Or rather, a very old way – one that unites the intellect with the rest of what makes us human. Hence, the title of this collection of essays: Head, Heart, and Hands. Today, with the dominant model of education in acute crisis, this book is an invaluable inspiration, transmitting the spirit of Schumacher and the possibility it holds to seed a new, holistic mode of education for the future."— Charles Eisenstein, speaker and author, The More Beautiful World Our Heart Knows is Possible "Located among the rolling hills, woodlands and wild hedgerows of Devon, for thirty amazing years the convivial ethos of Schumacher College has attracted some of the finest educators, scientists, artists, and theorists from around the world, all eager to participate (even if just for a few weeks) in the small-scale, craft-centered, and place-based sanity that animates the college. Schumacher draws steady insight from its locale — from the unique biodiversity of the terrain that surrounds and sustains it — yet the ecological intelligence of its programs has spread out through its many international students to influence, deepen, and transform the practice of ecology on every continent. With its wide array of contributors, this book is a splendid testament to its thirty years carefully cultivating a full-bodied wisdom rooted in attentive reciprocity with the winds, the waters, and the soil underfoot."— David Abram, author, Becoming Animal and The Spell of the Sensuous, and director, Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE)"By beginning with rebuilding community and reconnecting with the natural world we are part of, Schumacher College cultivates the kind of imaginative thinking and transformative practice that can bring into being a better future for all of us. Schumacher College and its growing network of alumni around the world, many of whom have contributed to this book, are beacons of active hope whose time has come."— Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party Member of the British Parliament"The book describes the vision and reality of Schumacher College, which is a living example of a sustainable civilisation in the making. Transformative Learning brings together some of the leading voices of our time articulating the parameters of a regenerative culture, urgently needed for now and for the future. It is essential reading!"— Otto Scharmer, author, Theory U, founder, MITx u.lab and Presencing Institute"I have a prediction. As you read Transformative Learning the deep coherence of the ideas will ignite in you a profound trust. You will realize that things are going to work out. These authors are the architects of an entirely new civilization. By dwelling in their thinking, you become a pattern that connects our hard time to a vibrant new era of the Earth Community."— Brian Thomas Swimme, professor, California Institute of Integral Studies

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