Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy

Heather Burns is Associate Professor in the Leadership for Sustainability Education graduate program at Portland State University, USA. Her scholarship has focused on sustainability pedagogy, including the roles of transformative learning, contemplative inquiry, whole-person learning, ecological design, and deep ecology in creating sustainable change.

• Part I Tending the Paradigm Shift.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Transformative Learning and New Science.- 3. Nurturing Spirit.- 4. Shedding the Newtonian.- 5. Re-Storying: Finding the Language to Reconnect.- 6. Identity and Privilege: Moving from Separation to Interconnection.- 7. On Not Changing the World.- 8. Emergence.- 9. Decolonizing Time (in the Era of Coronavirus).- Part II  Fostering Transformative Eco-spiritual Learning Spaces.- 10. Slowing Down, Non-doing, and Being Enough.- 11. Self-Compassion and Synchronicity.- 12. Rest: A Radical Sabbatical.- 13. Coherence in the Learning Field.- 14. Intuition.- 15. Nurturing Mindful and Relational Learning.- 16. Control and Letting Go.- 17. Interbeing and Self-Care.- 18. Extravagant Grace.- 19. Holding Space.- Part III Tools for Designing Transformative Eco-spiritual Learning.- 20. Emergent Ecological Design: A Practical Tool.- 21. The Burns Model of Sustainability Pedagogy.