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Randles, S, Wadham, H, Skritsovali, K, Hart, C, Hoque, S, Kettleborough, H, Klapper, R, Marron, R, Taylor, D and Walley, L (2023) Leveraging hope & experience: Towards an integrated model of transformative learning, community and leadership for sustainability action and change. In: Purcell, W and Haddock-Fraser, J, (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education. Bloomsbury, London.
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Abstract
How can we engage in futures-oriented ‘hope work’ in the face of extraordinary global challenges, and from within the confines of a commodified higher education system? This chapter traces the experience of a group of staff and students at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, who came together to explore this question through an experimental, emergent, and creative process of co-operative inquiry. This shared safe space enabled relations of trust, openness and enjoyment to emerge, which were conducive to learning, community-building, and shared leadership. Thus our shared experience enabled us to shed new and critical light on transformative learning, transformative community and transformative leadership. However, in place of three separate concepts, our findings lead us to a composite, integrated and mutually reinforcing model centred on a set of connecting 2 principles. These in turn are rooted in our subjective experiences of our practical cares and concerns, both individual and shared. Emerging from within an experiential ontology, then, this integrated model offers a reflexive alternative to the top-down approach to sustainability teaching and strategy that currently prevails in many higher education institutions. We share here our experience and the theoretical model it catalysed – along with suggestions for practical actions. In so doing, we hope that we might inspire others to experiment (in their own way) with more organic, less hierarchical, and potentially more enduring approaches to the pedagogy and practice of sustainability.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| Divisions: | Liverpool Business School |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2024 15:49 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2024 15:49 |
| Editors: | Purcell, W and Haddock-Fraser, J |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22359 |
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