Education and Sustainability: Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide / Edition 1

by Seonaigh MacPherson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415847292
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/14/2013
Series:	Routledge Research in Education
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Seonaigh MacPherson, Ph.D., served as an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Manitoba and an Adjunct Professor of Research at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia before accepting her current position at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She is co-founder and co-editor with Zvi Bekerman of the Routledge journal Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Critical Sustainability in the Aftermath of Education Section 1: Critical Contexts: What is at Stake? 1. Diversity 2. Ecological Knowledge 3. Liberation and Enlightenment 4. Learning to Love / Loving to Learn Section 2: Critical Issues and Cases: Education as a Sustainability Challenge 5. The Hidden Curriculum of Assimilation 6. Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning as a Sustainability Challenge 7. Language Education as a Sustainability Challenge 8. Consciousness as a Sustainability Challenge 9. Identity and Identification as a Sustainability Challenge 10. Migration as a Sustainability Challenge Section 3: Critical Responses: Educating to Sustain Generations 11. Global Ecological Citizenship Education 12. Towards a "Deep" Democratic Education for Sustainable Development