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This chapter considers the influence of a journey to India and a course on Gandhi and Globalisation and how this influenced the initial teacher education team at Somerset College. For the two team members who took this journey, a change in mindset was required as they looked to the global to inform the local practices of further education (FE) teachers. Including a global dimension in FE teaching meant recognising links which cut across other agendas, including equality and diversity and social and community cohesion, as well as encouraging a focus on the subject specialisms of their student teachers that had not been considered before. This chapter explores how opportunities like this can inspire change that has the potential to achieve wide-reaching effects in the FE sector.
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Further Reading
Stephan Harding’s (2006) book Animate Earth explores Gaian science and how this can help us understand how we as humans connect with the ‘more-than-human’ world. Satish Kumar’s (2006) autobiography describes his pilgrimage from India to America, and another in which he visited the holy places around Britain, as well as the ecological, spiritual and educational ventures he has been engaged in since 1972, including his involvement with Navdanya in India and the Schumacher College in Devon. He discusses the way in which he has been influenced by Gandhi’s philosophy and this has been of enormous benefit in understanding the ESD agenda. Shiva’s (2005, 2007) books describe her campaigns for change in agricultural practices and paradigms, biodiversity, seed freedom and against genetic modification, patents on seeds, chemical farming and other practices which increase farmers’ debts, as well as contributing to climate change. Each of these books is very helpful in developing understanding of some of the issues contributing to the environmental crisis.
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Summers, D., Dowling, D. (2016). From the Local to the Global and Back Again: Reflections on Journeying to India, Learning about Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Influence on the Professional and the Personal. In: Summers, D., Cutting, R. (eds) Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51911-5_4
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