- Title
- Transformative learning and individual adaptation
- Creator
- Kronlid, David O
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437147
- Identifier
- vital:73347
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-137-42804-2
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428042_4
- Description
- The first part of this chapter explores learning as a Capability to transformatively engage with the world in a climate change context. It draws on previous work that shows that modern as well as indigenous knowledge systems are being affected by climate change. There is no doubt that for societies to adapt to climate change, there is a need for substantive transformative learning, as people everywhere will need to learn new values, practices, relations, and new ways of being and becoming. Such learning on a societal scale has occurred before—as humans adapted to the emergence of the Industrial Revolu-tion, for example. However, the transformation in the climate change adaptation context in many ways is in response to maladaptations that emerged from previous massive societal transformation processes, making this complex to navigate. It is also well known that climate change is leaving many people insecure and highly vulnerable to climate change impacts; it is affecting us all, but the impacts are uneven (Field et al. 2014), requiring different kinds of transformative learning processes in different places and contexts. In this chapter, we therefore propose that, under climate change conditions, we view learning as a key Capability in climate adaptation contexts.
- Format
- 30 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Kronlid, D.O. and Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2014. Transformative learning and individual adaptation. In Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities: Justice and Ethics in Research and Policy (pp. 75-105). New York: Palgrave Macmillan US
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