Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’

The need for more radical forms of learning-centred transformation is increasingly recognised in transformations to sustainability. Yet these approaches to learning remain under-developed and undertheorised especially from a politics and environmental education research perspective. This paper offer...

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Main Author: Heila Lotz-Sisitka
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2024-06-01
Series:Australian Journal of Environmental Education
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0814062624000624/type/journal_article
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description The need for more radical forms of learning-centred transformation is increasingly recognised in transformations to sustainability. Yet these approaches to learning remain under-developed and undertheorised especially from a politics and environmental education research perspective. This paper offers a review of an emerging politics of transgression in environmental education research, as developed through an extensive T-learning (transgressive learning in times of climate change) knowledge co-production research programme, spanning eight years, and continuing. The ongoing problem that the research programme seeks to address is how to do transgressive learning in/as environmental education research in times where the fall out of coloniality and fossil capital collide in an increasingly regressive political landscape which Akomolafe and Ladha (2017, pg. 820) describe as “the deadening ideology of late-stage capitalism and its corollaries of patriarchy, rationalism, white supremacy and anthropocentrism.” Through the paper, I seek to highlight a “low theory” (Wark, 2021) of transgressive politics in environmental education research, embodied in practices of transgressive politics as movement in co-engaged T-learning research, which I illuminate through a meta-reflective curational process from the ‘archive’ or T-learning knowledge commons collection.
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spelling doaj-art-0b30329a35ef4e769c1f18f4eef2efa32025-08-20T03:40:44ZengCambridge University PressAustralian Journal of Environmental Education0814-06262049-775X2024-06-014054957310.1017/aee.2024.62Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’Heila Lotz-Sisitka0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-9881Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Makhanda, Eastern Cape, 6140, South AfricaThe need for more radical forms of learning-centred transformation is increasingly recognised in transformations to sustainability. Yet these approaches to learning remain under-developed and undertheorised especially from a politics and environmental education research perspective. This paper offers a review of an emerging politics of transgression in environmental education research, as developed through an extensive T-learning (transgressive learning in times of climate change) knowledge co-production research programme, spanning eight years, and continuing. The ongoing problem that the research programme seeks to address is how to do transgressive learning in/as environmental education research in times where the fall out of coloniality and fossil capital collide in an increasingly regressive political landscape which Akomolafe and Ladha (2017, pg. 820) describe as “the deadening ideology of late-stage capitalism and its corollaries of patriarchy, rationalism, white supremacy and anthropocentrism.” Through the paper, I seek to highlight a “low theory” (Wark, 2021) of transgressive politics in environmental education research, embodied in practices of transgressive politics as movement in co-engaged T-learning research, which I illuminate through a meta-reflective curational process from the ‘archive’ or T-learning knowledge commons collection.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0814062624000624/type/journal_articleLow theorypolitics of environmental educationtransgressive learningtransformations to sustainability
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Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’
Australian Journal of Environmental Education
Low theory
politics of environmental education
transgressive learning
transformations to sustainability
title Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’
title_full Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’
title_fullStr Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’
title_full_unstemmed Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’
title_short Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’
title_sort towards a politics of transgression in environmental education research meta review of a t learning research archive
topic Low theory
politics of environmental education
transgressive learning
transformations to sustainability
url https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0814062624000624/type/journal_article
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