Ariane König and Nancy Budwig have edited a cutting edge Special Issue for the Journal Current Opinions of Environmental Sustainability on Transformative Learning for Sustainability and more specifically on ‘New requisites to universities in the 21st century’.
This Special Issue focuses on how universities engage in sustainability issues by staging transformative learning opportunities. The special issue features ten case papers from five continents illustrating the changing relationship of learning, research and practice in such programmes. The issue includes a paper on the Luxembourg Certificate in Sustainability and Social Innovation and an introductory overview by Dr König.to which I will contribute in May with a talk on “Sustainability transitions in society: changing science/citizen relations with citizen science for social learning“. The University of Luxembourg has made the entire special issue open access which means that anyone can download all the papers for free, including the one I co-authored with Heila Lotz-Sisitka, David Kronlid and Dylan McGary on Transgressive Learning which you can also download the paper here: transgressiveSocialLearning Transgressive Social Learning
Highlights from the paper are:
- Pedagogies are required that are not constrained by current use of limited concepts, or by disciplinary decadence.
- Concepts such as resilience are problematic if they hold unsustainable systems and patterns in place.
- Disruptive capacity building and transgressive pedagogies are needed for a more sustainable world.
- Transformative, transgressive forms of learning requires co-learning in multi-voiced and multi-actor formations.
- Higher education should provide possibilities for engaged, lived experience of transformative praxis for students.
Transformative learning 