Transformative Education for Sustainability—A Global Perspective
摘要
For societySociety to successfully move to more sustainable lifestyles, education is essential. The process of teaching, learning, and transformation that promotes a sustainable culture is known as sustainabilitySustainability education. Transformative learningTransformative learning is the route to sustainabilitySustainability. The idea of education for sustainable developmentEducation for sustainable development (ESD) has been part of the debate since its inception. Although education in the area of Sustainable DevelopmentSustainable development has an overwhelming effect on student learning and behavior change, transformative sustainabilitySustainability education (TSE) is a rare pedagogical technique in higher educationHigher education.. The goal of transformative learningTransformative learning is to get societySociety to critically reevaluate its worldviews. Education for sustainable developmentEducation for sustainable development practitioners finds resonance in these learning outcomes. Higher education institutions must adjust their practices in accordance with the increasingly complicated sustainabilitySustainability and environmental concerns that global communities face. The authors’ goal in writing this chapter is to elaborate on how transformative education might be used as a sustainable developmentSustainable development strategy. The prevalent contextual challenges of sustainable education have been delineated in this chapter. A sustainable future is contingent upon responsible innovation. The capacity of the transformative learningTransformative learning theory is to serve as a driving force behind a fundamental reorientation of higher education’s discipline order into a more suitable transdisciplinary innovation matrix. We must change policy if we hope to transform teaching and learning. We face significant challenges, one of which is figuring out how to effectively cross disciplinary boundaries to better utilize the knowledgeKnowledge already possessed by one discipline in order to encourage more transdisciplinary activity and produce new, pertinent knowledgeKnowledge to address the challenges of the future. Within the current paradigm, human imagination, creativity, and invention have fallen short of providing sufficient answers to sustainabilitySustainability-related problems. To meet these difficulties, education needs a paradigm shift.