“This is an important, urgent and sophisticated book. Surely the best book yet written on Education for Sustainable Development. Using a subtle and impressive combination of carefully elicited research data from different socioeconomic settings and pertinent and effective theoretical resources, it argues for an affirmation of equality and life within a critical and situated ESD. Anyone with concerns about the extinction of our species and all practitioners of ESD must read this book now!”

Stephen J Ball FBA, UCL Institute of Education

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is recurrently depicted as an enterprise that unites humanity in a common pursuit of a more just and sustainable world. But how is this enterprise pursued on a planet that is enormously unequal? Drawing on biopolitical theory and rich empirical data from different contexts around the world, this book explores how ESD is unpacked depending on whether people are rich or poor. The book demonstrates how ESD is adapted to the lifestyles and living conditions of different populations. The implication of this depoliticized sensitivity to local ‘realities’, the book argues, is that inequality becomes accommodated and that different responsibilities are assigned to rich and poor. Ultimately, the book considers alternatives to this biopolitical divide.
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Drawing on biopolitical theory and rich empirical data from different contexts around the world, this book explores how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is unpacked depending on whether people are rich or poor.
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1. Education for Sustainable Development: A Global Enterprise in an Unequal World 2. Exploring Education for Sustainable Development Biopolitically 3. Global Policy Initiatives: Historical Trajectories and the Biopolitics of the Present 4. Winning Differently: Awarding Education for Affluent and Subsistence Lifestyles 5. Eco-Schools for Rich and Poor: Global Governmentality 6. Eco-Schools for Rich and Poor: The Biopolitical Divide 7. Biopolitical ‘Effects’ of Education for Sustainable Development 8. Conclusion: Towards Affirmative Alternatives
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• Part of the Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education series; • Includes original fieldwork carried out in Sweden, South Africa, Rwanda and Uganda; • Develops a unique biopolitical comparative approach to the study of global education for sustainable development (ESD) implementation.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781529234077
Publisert
2024-10-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Bristol University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, G, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Biographical note

Beniamin Knutsson is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Research Associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Linus Bylund is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sofie Hellberg is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Jonas Lindberg is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.