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This book explores how the education sector can transition to being truly sustainable and why necessary innovations for educational change are being subverted and undermined when mapped onto the existing industrial educational system.
Based on PhD case study research with schools that are modelling and teaching sustainability, action research, and the author's 40 years of working in the K-12 system, this volume examines how education continues to perpetuate the status quo, and why education innovations are thus undermined. It shows the importance of redesigning education based on the principles of sustainable living systems and explores how this can be achieved across all levels of the educational system. The first part of the book establishes a new vision of sustainable education, whilst the second brings to light the industrial mechanistic root metaphors in current practice across leadership and administration, buildings and grounds, curriculum design, teaching, and learning that are subverting innovative efforts. From understanding the foundational, influential, problematic root metaphors of our "Industrial" educational system, it moves to explore how the ecological principles of sustainability can be used to rethink and redesign an educational system, from its administration, leadership, and policy, to curriculum, buildings, grounds and resources, through to teaching and learning, that will support sustainability, innovation, and creativity, developing systems thinking and sustainability as a frame of mind.
Exploring how the education sector can transition to being truly sustainable and find new ways to traverse the problematic "Industrial" world view at this pivotal moment, will appeal to administrators, post-secondary educators, policymakers, and researchers and scholars of sustainability education, educational leadership, curriculum design, and educational philosophy.
Contents
Part 1. Envisioning the Future 1. Visions of a Sustainable Future and the Role of Education Part 2. What is Holding us Back? 2. The Story of School Part 3. Creative Solutions 3. At the Crossroads: Guiding Principles of Sustainable Living Systems 4. Organization, Administration and Leadership to Support Transformative Learning and Systems Thinking 5. The Hidden Curriculum: Buildings, Grounds, and Resources 6. Curriculum: A Living Systems Framework 7. Teaching and Learning: Empowering Change Part 4. Next Steps: Adaptation and Emergence in Transitioning to Sustainable Education 8: Transitioning Organizational Structure, Administration, and Leadership 9. Transitioning Buildings, Grounds, and Resources 10. Transitioning Curriculum 11. Transitioning Teaching and Learning 12. The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
