Caribbean Dreams: Education for More than "Just" Sustainable Development

Autor/in	Brissett, Nigel O. M.
Titel	Caribbean Dreams: Education for More than "Just" Sustainable Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Environmental Education, 53 (2022) 1, S.54-67 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brissett, Nigel O. M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-8964
DOI	10.1080/00958964.2021.2023448
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sustainable Development; Developing Nations; Social Change; Educational Practices; Social Systems; Educational Change; Aspiration; Caribbean + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungspraxis; Social system; Soziales System; Bildungsreform; Streben
Abstract	Education has the potential to help address some of the most critical social and environmental issues of the Caribbean. However, I argue that this can only occur if there is a radical critique of the now dominant education for sustainable development (ESD) discourse, which is seemingly constructed primarily from the positionality and interests of the global powerful. I draw on repositioning theory to reframe the perspective from which the sustainability discourse is constructed to advocate for an educational approach that is more relevant to the context of the Caribbean. The resulting education envisioned in this paper, Education for Social Transformation (EST), challenges some of the assumptions and conceptions of ESD by exposing broader issues of inequity that the latter concept implicitly endorses. I argue that EST may help build sustainable Caribbean societies by linking environmental preservation to broader social transformations. Thus, transformation takes center stage in place of the limited notion of sustainability that has become synonymous with capitalist development violence. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01