There is an urgent need to transform education in line with the needs and interests of groups that have been historically disadvantaged through processes of unsustainable development.
Transforming education for more sustainable futures is a complex problem that needs to be approached from the perspectives, interests and lived experience of those directly experiencing and facing those challenges. It requires drawing not only on knowledge from the academic disciplines but from Indigenous and local knowledge held in communities as well as professional knowledge and practical know-how held by practitioners, policymakers and other relevant stakeholders. Bringing together these different forms of expertise requires transgressing traditional top-down, university-led approaches to research, which often involve knowledge hierarchies that overlook and undervalue Indigenous, local, professional and practical knowledge.
Read our Call to Action and evidence informed recommendations for transformative research.
This Call to Action is one of six:
