Caribbean dreams: Education for more than just sustainable development

IF 1.7 4区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI:10.1080/00958964.2021.2023448
Nigel O. M. Brissett
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Abstract Education has the potential to help address some of the most critical social and environmental issues of the Caribbean. However, I argue that this can only occur if there is a radical critique of the now dominant education for sustainable development (ESD) discourse, which is seemingly constructed primarily from the positionality and interests of the global powerful. I draw on repositioning theory to reframe the perspective from which the sustainability discourse is constructed to advocate for an educational approach that is more relevant to the context of the Caribbean. The resulting education envisioned in this paper, Education for Social Transformation (EST), challenges some of the assumptions and conceptions of ESD by exposing broader issues of inequity that the latter concept implicitly endorses. I argue that EST may help build sustainable Caribbean societies by linking environmental preservation to broader social transformations. Thus, transformation takes center stage in place of the limited notion of sustainability that has become synonymous with capitalist development violence.
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加勒比梦想:教育不仅仅是可持续发展
摘要教育有可能帮助解决加勒比地区一些最关键的社会和环境问题。然而,我认为,只有对目前占主导地位的可持续发展教育(ESD)话语进行激进的批评,这种情况才会发生,而可持续发展教育似乎主要是根据全球强国的立场和利益构建的。我利用重新定位理论来重新构建可持续性话语的视角,以倡导一种更符合加勒比地区背景的教育方法。本文所设想的教育,即社会转型教育(EST),通过揭露后一概念隐含认可的更广泛的不平等问题,挑战了可持续发展教育的一些假设和概念。我认为,通过将环境保护与更广泛的社会变革联系起来,EST可能有助于建立可持续的加勒比社会。因此,转型取代了有限的可持续性概念,后者已成为资本主义发展暴力的代名词。
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期刊介绍: Any educator in the environmental field will find The Journal of Environmental Education indispensable. Based on recent research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the journal details how best to present environmental issues and how to evaluate programs already in place for primary through university level and adult students. University researchers, park and recreation administrators, and teachers from the United States and abroad provide new analyses of the instruction, theory, methods, and practices of environmental communication and education in peer-reviewed articles. Reviews of the most recent books, textbooks, videos, and other educational materials by experts in the field appear regularly.
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