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.
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Challenging Root Metaphors and the Industrial Schooling System
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781003832928
Publisert
2024
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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