Deepening ecological relationality through critical onto-epistemological inquiry: where transformative learning meets sustainable science
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Article Title | Deepening ecological relationality through critical onto-epistemological inquiry: where transformative learning meets sustainable science |
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ERA Journal ID | 20052 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Williams, Lewis |
Journal Title | Journal of Transformative Education |
Journal Citation | 11 (2), pp. 95-113 |
Number of Pages | 19 |
Year | 2013 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd |
Place of Publication | Thousand Oaks, CA. United States |
ISSN | 1541-3446 |
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. |
Keywords | personal transformation; transformative learning; transformative pedagogy |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500315. Philosophy of mind (excl. cognition) |
500318. Philosophy of specific cultures (incl. comparative philosophy) | |
500304. Environmental philosophy | |
Public Notes | © The Author 2013. Published version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Health, Nursing and Midwifery |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2102/deepening-ecological-relationality-through-critical-onto-epistemological-inquiry-where-transformative-learning-meets-sustainable-science
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