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Education for sustainable development - the educational offshoot of the concept of 'sustainable development' - has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. This book applies a critical lens to the field and finds it wanting in many regards. Largely accepting the prevailing neo-liberal global marketplace agenda, many academics still shy away from confronting rampant consumerism as a key factor in fomenting an unsustainable world. The neo-liberal agenda emphasizes technological, scientific, and policy dimensions, paying insufficient heed to social and axiological domains. Pivotally, it continues to embrace a mechanistic world view rather than a holistic or ecological one and, as such, appropriates problem as cure in its proposals and programs. Its discourse is overwhelmingly occidental, occluding the voice of the South. The book's contributors speak from the borderlands of sustainability-related education and offer insights, ideas, and proposals for transformative education, free of the unsustainable 'business as usual' tenor of education for sustainable development. Table of Contents include: Raising the Bar for Peace and Sustainability Educators: An Educational Response to the Implementation Gap * Thoughts from a Darkened Corner: Transformative Learning for the Gathering Storm * Education: A Road to Nowhere or a Path to a More Sustainable Future? A Southern Perspective * What Development Education Can Bring to the Sustainability Agenda * Reframing Sustainable Development and Education for Sustainable Development: Drawing Insights from Islam * Re-Imagining Sustainability Education
