Transformative Pedagogic Practice : Education for Sustainable Development and Water Conflicts in Indian Geography Education

Abstract

This book explores how the transnational Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) policy is being translated into formal school education in India. Stephanie Leder investigates the ESD’s transformative potential for pedagogic practice and builds a set of principles for how the global objectives of the ESD can be interpreted in diverse socio-cultural contexts. Her approach for transformative pedagogic practice emphasizes the promotion of a critical consciousness through argumentation skills. Using the case of water conflicts in geography education in India, the book reveals the contradictions between ESD objectives and curricula, syllabi, textbooks and classroom teaching at secondary schools in Pune, Maharashtra. Leder’s approach demonstrates how principles of schooling can be altered towards learner-centered, problem-posing and network-thinking teaching approaches to empower students towards reflective decision-making on the sustainable use of natural resources.

Keywords

Geographical educational research; Transformative pedagogic practice; Education for sustainable development; Geography education; Teaching methodology; Schooling; India; Translation of educational policies; Power; Empowerment; Cultural values of learning and teaching Basil Bernstein Paolo Freire Critical consciousness Environmental education Knowledge Skill development Argumentation Learner-centered pedagogy Textbook Water conflicts Natural resource management

Published in

Education for sustainability
2018, number: 3
Publisher: Springer

SLU Authors

• Leder, Stephanie

  • University of Cologne

UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2369-0
• ISBN: 978-981-13-2368-3
• eISBN: 978-981-13-2369-0

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/100623