Education and Sustainability: Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide

by MacPherson; Seonaigh

• ISBN13: 9780415882156
• ISBN10: 041588215X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora, the book extends its analysis to consider the plight of other peoples who find themselves straddling the Indigenous-Minority-Diaspora divide. MacPherson explores the overlapping and distinctive sustainability challenges facing indigenous and minority communities when they are connected by and within diasporas, and seeks to adequately explain the discontinuities and disjunctures between their educational struggles and achievement levels.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Critical Sustainability in the Aftermath of Education	p. 1
Critical Contexts: What is at Stake?
Diversity	p. 19
Ecological Knowledge	p. 39
Liberation and Enlightenment	p. 54
Learning to Love/Loving to Learn	p. 75
Critical Issues and Cases: Education as a Sustainability Challenge
The Hidden Curriculum of Assimilation	p. 105
Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning as a Sustainability Challenge	p. 130
Language Education as a Sustainability Challenge	p. 162
Consciousness as a Sustainability Challenge	p. 180
Identity and Identification as a Sustainability Challenge	p. 194
Migration as a Sustainability Challenge	p. 210
Critical Responses: Educating to Sustain Generations
Global Ecological Citizenship Education	p. 229
Towards a ôDeepö Democratic Education for Sustainable Development	p. 244
References	p. 265
Author Index	p. 281
Subject Index	p. 285
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