Participatory Public Education: A cosmopolitan approach to social and environmental justice

Janet Mcıntyre-mills

doi:10.17275/per.15.spi.1.1

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Participatory Public Education: A cosmopolitan approach to social and environmental justice

Abstract

This special edition includes papers from colleagues and graduate students on the area of shared concern spanning the rights of the voiceless and the marginalised and the responsibility of educators and public policy researchers to enhance the capability of decision makers to hear their voices and to work with them to co-create a better world.

My starting point is to think about the ‘taken for granted’. As a social anthropologist and sociologist I have drawn inspiration from people with whom I have learned whilst undertaking fieldwork in a range of cultural contexts. As time passed and I was confronted by more and more social, economic and environmental issues I was increasingly inspired by West Churchman’s Design of Inquiring Systems Approach ‘to unfolding values’ and ‘sweeping in’ social, economic and environmental considerations. The body of work inspired by this approach and aspects of social cybernetics (Bausch, Christakis, Flood, Haraway, Jackson, Romm, Stafford Beer, Van Gigch, Ulrich, and Midgley) are also helpful in formulating more systemic research on living systems and our place in the bundle of life. Most importantly the organic praxis and focus on living systems by Shiva, Deborah Bird Rose, Max Neef, Yiannis Laouris, Turok and Wadsworth is increasingly relevant to my current work on ecological footprints and social justice.

Keywords

Participatory Public Education

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Janet Mcıntyre-mills This is me

Publication Date

November 30, 2015

Submission Date

May 1, 2015

Acceptance Date

-

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Year 2015 Volume: 2 Number: 4

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1.Janet Mcıntyre-mills. Participatory Public Education: A cosmopolitan approach to social and environmental justice. PER. 2015 Nov. 1;2(4). doi:10.17275/per.15.spi.1.1