Healing and transforming the ways in which we conduct our material and non-material exchanges. Above all it refers to a need for interrupting a consumption-oriented mode of relating to the world, where consumption does not refer merely to consuming material goods, but also knowledges and experiences that can be extracted through interaction with others. It entails a need for interrupting a utility-maximizing (self-interested) way of being in the world that decentres personal desires and centres collective (or metabolic) needs. It includes learning to practice economies (material and non-material exchanges) based on abundance, reciprocity, and redistribution.
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Global Citizenship Education and Sustainability Otherwise
Rene Suša (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Vanessa Andreotti (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Sharon Stein (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Cash Ahenakew (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Tereza Čajkova (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Dino Kuperman Siwek (Terra Adentro, Brazil), Camilla Cardoso (Terra Adentro, Brazil), and Ninawa Huni Kui (Federation of the Huni Kui Indigenous People, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4402-0.ch001
Abstract
This chapter presents a selection of theoretical and pedagogical frameworks for global citizenship education (GCE) otherwise of the “Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures” (GTDF) collective. The authors discuss the challenges of addressing the depth and complexity of existing global challenges, in particular as they relate to the questions of (un)sustainability and inherent systemic violence and injustices of modern societies. They begin by introducing the basic premises that guide the work of the GTDF collective and then proceed to map different (soft, critical, and beyond reform) approaches to GCE. The chapter also introduces the pedagogical metaphors/cartographies of the “House of Modernity,” the “Bus,” and the “In Earth's CARE” pedagogical framework and provides links and references to other pedagogical experiments, developed by the collective.