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Resilient Education: Confronting Perplexity and Uncertainty

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The chapter explores the role that education plays in a context of growing conflict that magnifies the usual challenges faced by environmental education. The promotion of extractive megaprojects (opencast mining, micro-dams, shale gas extraction), including several preconized as alternative production and sustainable energy strategies (giant wind turbines), has resulted in social conflicts as a result of the breakdown of community ties, the destruction of regional economies, the loss of cultural diversity and the degradation of environments. In areas where such investments are located, local relationships have been disjointed and then selectively integrated and subordinated to globalized value chains led by large transnational corporations. This chapter ends with consideration of strategies that can be undertaken to strengthen local resilience against the onslaught of huge economic forces that tend to elicit the subjection of local governments.

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    The concept of resilience in the social sciences has been useful to characterize a set of phenomena related to individual or community capacities to bounce back from adverse situations of disturbance and instability and to recover conditions of self-organization (Adger, 2000). This chapter emphasizes a meaning of the concept that focuses on resilience from a political, ecological, and educational perspective. We are mindful, however, that the use of “resilience” is also currently being contested (Neocleous, 2013).

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    Assassinated in early 2016, Berta Cáceres led a movement that in 2013 and in 2014 got the World Bank and the multinational Chinese Sinohydro, to desist from building a hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River, listed by the Lenca Indians as sacred and crucial for their survival.

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    Through foundations and philanthropies, elite groups and corporations exert influence in decision-making at different political and social levels. Examples include the Magsaysay award for community leaders from Asia, and other funding of certain social movements and leaders (Negi, 2008).

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  1. Institute of Researches in Education, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico

    Edgar J. González-Gaudiano

  2. Educational Research Methodology Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    José Gutiérrez-Pérez

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González-Gaudiano, E.J., Gutiérrez-Pérez, J. (2017). Resilient Education: Confronting Perplexity and Uncertainty. In: Jickling, B., Sterling, S. (eds) Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education. Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51322-5_9

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