A lifelong-lifewide ecological concept of learning for an Ecological Civilisation
In 2000 Lifewide Education embarked on a journey to explore the idea of living and learning for a more sustainable future. Underlying our exploration is the belief that to achieve the transformation of human civilisation and live our lives in a sustainable, regenerative way, humanity must embrace an ecological world view within which all human activities, including learning, practice and achievement are understood in relationship to the world in which they are enacted,. If we are to succeed in learning and acting for sustainable, regenerative futures, we must embrace the idea that we are not just independent beings we are interbeings, enacting life within and with an ecological world of relationships, connectivity, and interdependency. We need a vision and concept of lifelong learning and action that embraces consciously and explicitly the lifewide dimensions of learning and action in everyday life and its fundamentally ecological nature and we also need a broader moral purpose for education and learning that includes learning for others and other things, and encompasses the health and vitality of our life sustaining planet. By recognising that we are fundamentally ecological interbeings and that learning and practice are ecological in nature, we are laying the foundations for a civilisation and a future based on ecological principles.
Steps to an ecology of lifelong-lifewide learning and practice
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Integrating Learning and Living for a More Sustainable Future
Keynote talk given at the Lillehammer Lifelong Learning ICDE Conference Feb 2023
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