Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction and Overview

   • Margaret Robertson

   Pages 1-9

3. Knowledge, Change and Everyday Living

   • Margaret Robertson

   Pages 11-23

4. A Conversation About the Politics of Everyday Knowledge at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies on the 14th of August 2014

   • Phillip Darby, Yassir Morsi, John von Sturmer

   Pages 25-40

5. Negotiating Chineseness and Capitalising on Resources Through Learning Chinese Heritage Language: Habitus and Capital in Fields

   • Guanglun Michael Mu

   Pages 41-58

6. Matariki Tāpuapua: Pools of Traditional Knowledge and Currents of Change

   • Hēmi Whaanga, Rangi Matamua

   Pages 59-70

7. Transformative Maternities: Indigenous Stories as Resistance and Reclamation in Aotearoa New Zealand

   • Naomi Simmonds

   Pages 71-88

8. Mongolian Nomads: Effects of Globalization and Social Change

   • Batchuluun Yembuu

   Pages 89-105

9. Everyday Knowledge and Disaster Management: The Role of Social Media

   • Lai Hang Dennis Hui, Po Keung Eric Tsang

   Pages 107-121

10. Challenges to the Democratisation of Knowledge: Status Hierarchies and Emerging Inequalities in Educational Opportunities Amongst Oil Palm Settlers in Papua New Guinea

    • Sean Ryan, George N. Curry, Emmanuel Germis, Gina Koczberski, Merolyn Koia

    Pages 123-139

11. Sustainability in and through Lifelong Learning: Making Space for Everyday Knowledge and Regionalism in a Globalising World

    • Richard G. Bagnall

    Pages 141-158

12. Global Agendas Versus Local Needs in Educational Development: The Barefoot College’s Solar Night Schools Program in India

    • Emilia Szekely, Mark Mason

    Pages 159-175

13. Developing Curriculum Leadership Among Teachers for School-Based Curriculum Innovations in Hong Kong: A Distributed and Problem-Solving Approach

    • Edmond Hau Fai Law, Maurice Galton, Kerry Kennedy, John C. K. Lee

    Pages 177-193

14. Creating an Ecology of Affordances to Allow Australian Pre-service Teachers to Get to Know and Make Sense of China

    • Lesley Harbon, Catherine Smyth

    Pages 195-208

15. Post-carbon Futures for Geography Education?

    • John Morgan

    Pages 209-222

16. The Stuff That Matters to Me: An Exploration of Melbourne’s Peri-urban Fringe from the Perspectives of Young People

    • Mary A. Burston

    Pages 223-236

17. Everyday Political Knowledge and the Construction of Regional Identity: The East Asian Experience

    • Vic Yu Wai Li

    Pages 237-253

18. The Everyday Dynamic in Space and Place

    • Po Keung Eric Tsang, Margaret Robertson

    Pages 255-258

19. Back Matter

    Pages 259-265

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Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. Reflecting these themes this book places emphasis on community wisdom. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region. Contributions from researchers active within local communities help build knowledge capacity and support for collaborative research.

• Capacity building
• Citizenship in a globalised world
• Collective knowledge
• Cultural understandings
• Education and development
• Education and sustainability
• Education in the Asia Pacific Region
• Educational policy
• Environmental change
• Everyday knwoledge
• Global science
• Local community wisdom

• School of Education, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

  Margaret Robertson

• The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

  Po Keung Eric Tsang

Margaret Robertson is Professor of Education at La Trobe University. Teaching interests in geographical education and innovative pedagogy complement long-standing research interests in youth studies and cross-cultural differences. Outreach interests include membership of the Steering Committee for the International Year of Global Understanding project which is an initiative of the International Geographical Union.


Eric Po Keung Tsang is an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education specialising in feasibility and environmental impact assessment studies. He also acts as the associate director of the  UNEVOC Centre (HK), China and chairman of Green Power a major green group in Hong Kong. He is also a panel member of the Advisory Council on the Environment HKSAR and the International Year of Global Understanding, initiated by the International Geographical Union(IGU).

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