Deepening ecological relationality through critical onto-epistemological inquiry: where transformative learning meets sustainable science

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Williams, Lewis. 2013. "Deepening ecological relationality through critical onto-epistemological inquiry: where transformative learning meets sustainable science." Journal of Transformative Education. 11 (2), pp. 95-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344613490997
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Deepening ecological relationality through critical onto-epistemological inquiry: where transformative learning meets sustainable science

ERA Journal ID20052
Article CategoryArticle
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AuthorWilliams, Lewis
Journal TitleJournal of Transformative Education
Journal Citation11 (2), pp. 95-113
Number of Pages19
Year2013
PublisherSAGE Publications Ltd
Place of PublicationThousand Oaks, CA. United States
ISSN1541-3446
1552-7840
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344613490997
Web Address (URL)http://jtd.sagepub.com/content/11/2/95
Abstract

Indigenous worldviews remain at the margins of education, science, and sustainability efforts. The emergence of sustainable science holds promise as a means of advancing deep sustainability and recentering Indigenous knowledge. Transformative learning's engagement with sustainable science has the potential to play an integral role in this paradigmatic shift which necessitates a broader legitimation of our ecology as a deeply interconnected living system. An important part of this project is learner-centred critical onto-epistemological inquiry-the critical study of one's own reality and implications for ecological relationship. Drawing on Intuitive Inquiry and Kaupapa Maori research, this article illuminates the partial decolonization of my own Life-World and arrival at a deepened sense of ecological relationship. Initially focusing on 'the dreaming,' it integrates my visceral experiences of the land and Indigenous constructions of reality through interviews with Ngai Te Rangi and Plains Cree elders. The implications for transformative learning and sustainability are discussed.

Keywordspersonal transformation; transformative learning; transformative pedagogy
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020500315. Philosophy of mind (excl. cognition)
500318. Philosophy of specific cultures (incl. comparative philosophy)
500304. Environmental philosophy
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© The Author 2013. Published version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

Byline AffiliationsSchool of Health, Nursing and Midwifery
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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