1Learning as Sustainability

This chapter offers a theoretical overview of learning and sustainability from a sociological and anthropological perspective and identifies a number of issues that will be explored more fully in later chapters. It comprises the following sections:

•  On sustainability;

•  On learning, lifelong;

•  On eco-museums;

•  On the everyday;

•  On affordances and the everyday; and

•  On education for sustainable development.

ON SUSTAINABILITY

There has been no shortage of academic and political critiques of the complementary concepts ‘sustainable development’ and ‘sustainability’. Some academics play the game of counting the number of definitions, arguing about their inconsistency and then finally offering one of their own. ...

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