15 research outputs found
Creative Social Research:Rethinking Theories and Methods and the Calling of an Ontological Epistemology of Participation
Civil society and the calling of self-development
Das Konzept der "Zivilgesellschaft" ist für den Autor ein fruchtbarer Ausgangspunkt für transkulturelle Dialoge bzw. Diskurse. An diesem Konzept wird jedoch moniert, dass ihm ein posttraditionales Telos zugrunde liegt und es daher in eine "posttraditionale Theologie" transformiert werden sollte. Am Beispiel der indischen Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur wird dann gezeigt, wie ein nicht modernistisches Konzept einer Zivilgesellschaft aussehen könnte. Die Zivilgesellschaft ist aus dieser Sicht nicht nur der Ort deliberativer Politik (wie in den westlichen Konzeptionen), sondern auch ein "Raum des Zuhörens, der Kultivierung der Stille und der Transzendierung der Polarität von privat/öffentlich durch den Einzelnen". Der Kern der Zivilgesellschaft liegt für den Autor im Konzept der Selbstentwicklung sowohl auf individueller als auch auf institutioneller Ebene. Prinzipiell werden dabei die alten (europäischen) Dualismen im Sinne des buddhistischen Zusammenfallens der Gegensätze und Widersprüche unterlaufen. (ICA
Networks of Agape and Creativity: Learning Across Boundaries and the Calling of Planetary Realizations
Cultivating humanity?: Education and capabilities for a global 'Great Transition'
Major changes are required in predominant human values during the next two generations to ensure politically and environmentally sustainable societies and a sustainable global order: away from consumerism to a focus on quality of life; away from possessive individualism towards more human solidarity; and away from an assumption of domination of nature, towards a greater ecological sensitivity. After reviewing evidence on these challenges, the chapter analyses their implications and the possibilities for change at personal, societal, and global levels, with special reference to education and its possible contributions and constraints. It discusses the roles of and lessons from internationally oriented postgraduate education in helping form future national leaders and global brokers, drawing examples especially from the past two generations of experience at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague
Weaving pedagogies of possibility
It is easy to feel impatient with the pace of change when it comes to developing truly sustainable culture yet things are happening all over the world to lay the ground work, create the architecture and language of sustainability as a cultural reality. In Weaving Pedagogies of Possibility the authors seek to leverage from such developments. In this chapter the authors share their adventure in designing an open learning system within, across and between their institutions. We insist this work involves pedagogies in the plural as we seek to affirm and embrace alternative approaches to learning that draw on many cultures and places. We take as axiomatic that the world is always becoming other than what it appears to be; that this is contested space; and that it is in the play of environment, context, structure, culture and identity that the future lies. This sensitivity to the multiple and contested nature of social and ecological space lies at the heart of our vision and practice of pedagogies of possibility. © Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 2012