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

Year 2015, Special Issue 2015 I, 0 - 0, 30.11.2015

Janet Mcıntyre-mills

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.15.spi.1.1

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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