Education for transformation
Meeting students' needs in changing contemporary contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20504725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marian de Souza (0000-0003-0758-5825, Australian Catholic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-37 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Children s Spirituality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-436X • E-ISSN: 1469-8455 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13644360701834817 |
| OpenAlex | W2139909417 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
The latter part of the twentieth century saw huge movements of people across many areas of the globe through government‐organized migration programs, through extended career pathways, and through the growing numbers of refugees and displaced persons as a result of war, famine, drought and other devastating scenarios. This has led to the rise of societies with multicultural, multi‐faith and multi‐linguistic features, where once they were mono‐cultural and mono‐religious and, for the most part, mono‐linguistic. The emergence of these pluralist societies has, in some ways, ‘grown’ more inclusive and interactive communities with increased tolerance levels. Nonetheless, recent global events in the political, cultural and religious spheres have caused division, discrimination and distrust to surface, thereby unsettling the tenuous mantle of peace and harmony within these communities. This article examines some of these influences on contemporary Australian society and argues that what is needed is education for transformation which reflects a change in consciousness and which is more appropriate to the context of the contemporary world, one that is grounded in the totality of human experience which lies beyond the positivistic, reductionistic, scientific worldview of twentieth‐century education. Keywords: spirituality and educationreligious diversitypluralityAustralian societyconsciousnessparadigm shift Notes 1. In this article, I do not attempt to address the complexities associated with Indigenous Australians and their relationship with the rest of Australian society. Indeed, it is unfortunate but true that that there are a significant number of Australians today who have little knowledge of or engagement with Indigenous Australians or their culture, and the influence of Indigenous Australians on social, political and cultural contexts has been seriously restricted. Instead, this article examines the emergence of a migrant society in Australia with largely European and Christian influences and which, more recently, has begun to show the influences of the cultures of new arrivals from non‐European countries with multi‐religious backgrounds
Distrust · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Indigenous · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Educational Challenges and Innovations · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Religious Education and Schools
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2014 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |