Description: Research As Transformative Learning For Sustainable Futures introduces next-generation multi-worldview research that empowers prospective educational leaders with a vision and voice for designing 21st century education that fosters the diverse cultural capital of their multicultural societies.
Review Quotes: "[T]he Introduction, on Research as Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures supports the premise of the book that education for sustainable development is essential to help resolve our proliferating global crises, especially the worldwide decline in cultural diversity. Luitel and Taylor are professional educators and researchers in mathematics and science education. Hence their point that Western science and mathematics is too narrowly focused on the goal of economic development whilst turning a blind eye to the equally important sustainable development pillars of the natural environment and the culturally diverse social world [..] My main reason for reviewing this book [...] is to encourage you to engage with all of the contributors, in educational conversations that can include the sharing of explanations of educational influences in one's own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations that influence practice and understandings. I am thinking of explanations that include the use of values as explanatory principles in the explanations of educational influences in learning. The strength of the book is in introducing Living Theory researchers to Transformative Research, to ideas about Transforming Culturally Situated Selves, to Envisioning Transformative Pedagogies and to Sustaining Transformative Pedagogies."
- Jack Whitehead, The University of Cumbria, UK, Educational Journal of Living Theories, Volume 12(1): 103-104