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Rethinking Work and Learning

Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability

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Editors:
  1. Peter Willis

    1. Dr. Peter Willis Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work (Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies) School of Education, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes SA 5095, Australia

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  2. Stephen Mckenzie

    1. Dr. Peter Willis Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work (Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies) School of Education, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes SA 5095, Australia

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  3. Roger Harris

    1. Dr. Peter Willis Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work (Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies) School of Education, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes SA 5095, Australia

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  • Reveals and foregrounds the social dimensions of sustainable development
  • Explores how such social sustainability might be fostered through adult and vocational education in formal and community learning settings
  • Showcases educational agendas for social sustainability in a range of different countries
  • Contains practical applications for social sustainability education in a range of different fields, such as vocational education, health education, conflict resolution, youth education

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIV
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  2. Introduction: Challenges in Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Challenges in Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability

      • Peter Willis, Stephen McKenzie, Roger Harris
      Pages 1-9

  4. Foundations for Social Sustainability in Adult and Vocational Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Educating for a Sustainable Democracy

      • Michael Newman
      Pages 83-91

    3. Transformative Learning and AVE for Social Sustainability

      • Patricia Cranton
      Pages 93-105

    4. Education, Religion, Sustainability, and Dialogue

      • Chris Provis
      Pages 107-117

    5. The Role of Religion in Education for Social Sustainability

      • Heather Foster
      Pages 119-130

  5. Creating Spaces for Social Sustainability in Adult and Vocational Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Claiming Sustainable Space: Families, Communities, and Learning, an Auto/Biographical Perspective

      • Linden West
      Pages 133-144

    3. Health Literacy and AVE for Social Sustainability

      • Kay Price
      Pages 145-154

    4. Education in Post-conflict Environments: Pathways to Sustainable Peace

      • Rebecca Spence
      Pages 155-162

    5. Social Sustainability and Activation Strategies with Unemployed Young Adults

      • Danny Wildemeersch, Susan Weil
      Pages 163-178

  6. Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability in Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Chasing the Vultures Off the Roof: AVE for Living in Sierra Leone

      • Astrid von Kotze
      Pages 181-191
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Rethinking a Sustainable Society Alan Mayne The world has already passed the midway point for achieving by 2015 the eight Millennium Development Goals for a “more peaceful, prosperous and just world” that were set by the United Nations in the wake of its inspirational Millennium Dec- 1 laration in 2000. These goals range from combating poverty, hunger, and disease, to empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability. However Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, conceded in 2007 that progress to date has been mixed. During 2008 the head of the United Nations World Food P- gramme cautioned that because of the surge in world commodity prices the program had insuf?cient money to stave off global malnutrition, and the World Health Or- nization warned of a global crisis in water and sanitation. Depressing news accounts accumulate about opportunities missed to achieve a fairer world order and ecolo- calsustainability:themanipulationofelectionresultsinAfrica,humanrightsabuses in China, 4000 Americans dead and another nation torn apart by a senseless and protracted war in Iraq, and weasel words by the world’s political leadership in the lead-up to negotiations for a climate change deal in 2009 that is supposed to stabilize global carbon dioxide emissions. It is clear that the parameters of the debates that drive progressive policy change urgently require repositioning and energizing. As is shown by the contributors to Rethinking work and learning, experts in the humanities and social sciences (HASS) couldhaveanimportantroletoplayinthisprocess.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dr. Peter Willis Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work (Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies) School of Education, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes SA 5095, Australia

    Peter Willis, Stephen Mckenzie, Roger Harris

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