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Kartogrifa In-Flux

A Pedagogical Tool to Challenge Eurocentrism in Post-Compulsory Education for Sustainable Design

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Environment, Ethics and Cultures

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Kartogrifa In-Flux – Thinking, Talking, Building Alternative Pasts-Futures (KIF), the author’s project (Schultz, 2012), is a mediation object created on the East Coast of Australia in 2012, KIF revealed valuable insights in relation to aiding students in navigating the complexities of challenging ‘Eurocentrism’. Samir Amin (2011) provides a thorough theoretical critique of Eurocentrism from which the context of the word is aligned here.

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Schultz, T. (2015). Kartogrifa In-Flux. In: Stables, K., Keirl, S. (eds) Environment, Ethics and Cultures. International Technology Education Studies, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-938-8_12

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