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Transformative Education to Address All Sustainable Development Goals

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Quality Education

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Climate change education; Education for Sustainable Development; Quality education; SDGs; Transformative learning

Definition

Transformative education in this entry builds on published works by Mezirow (1978, 2018). It is understood as a process by which individuals acquire knowledge and skills that go beyond ensuring the individual learner is successful in their future careers. It can provide learners with the value orientation, skills, and motivation to contribute to the well-being of the global community. It enables them to contribute to our collective survival during uncertain times by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNESCO 2016a). In this context, the aim of transformative education is to prepare learners to take transformative actions to address the unsustainability of our current socioeconomic model that influences educational policy and practice, through transformative stages of learning in both...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. NTU Green Academy, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Vanessa Odell

  2. Nottingham Business School/NTU Green Academy, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Petra Molthan-Hill

  3. Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of West of England, Bristol, UK

    Stephen Martin

  4. Centre for Sustainable Futures/PedRIO, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

    Stephen Sterling

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Rudi Pretorius

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Odell, V., Molthan-Hill, P., Martin, S., Sterling, S. (2020). Transformative Education to Address All Sustainable Development Goals. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95870-5_106

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