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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461393203321

Autore

MacPherson Seonaigh

Titolo

Education and sustainability : learning across the diaspora, indigenous, and minority divide / / Seonaigh MacPherson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-15132-4

1-136-78905-7

9786613151322

0-203-82572-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in education ; ; 55

Disciplina

370.11/5

Soggetti

International education

Education and globalization

Sustainable development

Native language and education

Multiculturalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Diversity -- Ecological knowledge -- Liberation and enlightenment -- Learning to love, loving to learn -- The hidden curriculum of assimilation -- Curriculum, teaching, and learning as a sustainability challenge -- Language education as a sustainability challenge -- Consciousness as a sustainability challenge -- Identity and identification as a sustainability challenge -- Migration as a sustainability challenge -- Global ecological citizenship education -- Towards a "deep" democratic education for sustainable development.

Sommario/riassunto

This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora, the book extends its analysis to consider the plight of other peoples who find themselves straddling the



Indigenous-Minority-Diaspora divide. MacPherson explores the overlapping and distinctive sustainability challenges facing indigenous and minority communities when they are connected by and w