-
Chapters from the paperback
- Introduction
- Ecocriticism
- Optimisation
- Grounded Economic Awareness
- Advertising Awareness
- Transition Skills
- Commons Thinking
- Effortless Action
- Permaculture Design
- Community Gardening
- Ecological Intelligence
- Systems Thinking
- Gaia Awareness
- Futures Thinking
- Values Reflection and the Earth Charter
- Social Conscience
- New Media Literacy
- Cultural Literacy
- Carbon Capability
- Greening Business
- Materials Awareness
- Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design
- Technology Appraisal
- Complexity, Systems Thinking and Practice
- Coping with Complexity
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Finding Meaning Without Consuming
- Being in the World
- Beauty as a Way of Knowing
- Citizen Engagement
- Re-Educating the Person
- Institutional Transformation
- A Learning Society
- Additional chapters
- Interviews
Home » The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy » Chapters from the paperback » Transition Skills
Transition Skills
Transition Skills: skills for transition to a post fossil-fuel age, Stephen Quilley, Keele University
____________________
The twenty first century is going to be different – perhaps more so than most of us had realized. Official commentaries habitually focus on progress – the challenge of matching our increasing scientific understanding of the natural world and the continuing flow of new technologies, with corresponding improvements in our social and political arrangements. But what if change involves systemic failures and geopolitical conflict? …In this chapter I explore a vista of serious rupture and discontinuity and its implications for sustainability education. I provide an overview of the kind of ‘transition skills’ that may become relevant to the survival and well being of our children and their communities over the coming decades. I conclude by suggesting ways in which such skills might be taught along side traditional academic disciplines in a variety of learning contexts.
