Education and Sustainability: Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide [Hardcover]

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 within diasporas, and seeks to adequately explain the discontinuities and disjunctures between their educational struggles and achievement levels.

Introduction: Critical Sustainability in the Aftermath of Education  Section 1: Critical Contexts: What is at Stake?  1. Diversity  2. Ecological Knowledge  3. Liberation and Enlightenment  4. Learning to Love / Loving to Learn  Section 2: Critical Issues and Cases: Education as a Sustainability Challenge  5. The Hidden Curriculum of Assimilation  6. Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning as a Sustainability Challenge  7. Language Education as a Sustainability Challenge  8. Consciousness as a Sustainability Challenge  9. Identity and Identification as a Sustainability Challenge  10. Migration as a Sustainability Challenge  Section 3: Critical Responses: Educating to Sustain Generations  11. Global Ecological Citizenship Education  12. Towards a Deep Democratic Education for Sustainable Development

This book critically explores the impact of migration, education, development, and the spreal#,