Radical changes in society are needed for responding to climate change, and for transforming to sustainability. It is increasingly clear that people everywhere will need to learn to transform to sustainability in ways that are socially just, peaceful and ecologically sustainable.  

T – LEARNING: THE TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (TKN)

The need for more radical forms of learning-centred transformation is increasingly recognised in transformations to sustainability discourse. Yet these approaches to learning remain under-developed and undertheorized and limited research has been done on this type of learning, or on how such learning emerges or can be expanded to strengthen agency for sustainability transformations at multi-levels.

Working with and across civil society, youth, academic, government and community partners across nine countries in diverse areas that are vulnerable to arising impacts at the climate-energy-food-water security and social justice nexus the project aimed to 1) initiate, 2) frame and 3) investigate expansive, transgressive approaches to learning in selected community sites in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. The project develops theory, methodology and practice, especially transgressive learning theory and practice and generative, interventionist, learning-centred research methodologies. 

The International Science Council (ISC) released a short film in November 2022 that speaks to Transformations to Sustainability, and the projects funder over the period of 2016 to 2022. See this link for the full video.  Other stories of sustainability linked to the ELRC’s T-Learning project are available here.

T-Learning Research Summary

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