The wild turn in sustainability education – a critical relational perspective on the role of education in caring for people and planet
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Young adults today grow up in a multi-crises world. Living in such uncertain times is challenging. For a healthy and sustainable future for people and planet, change is needed. Education can be a key lever towards such change. In this article, wild pedagogies (WP) are explored as one ecology of learning for transition towards a caring relationship with the world. WP aim to rethink and reshape learning, disrupting unsustainable pathways and creating ground for relational and caring alternatives. WP invite students to reflect on who they are in the world and how to act upon that. Through a narrative literature review, this article explores the ‘wild turn’ in sustainability education by exploring WP in relation to other critical learning approaches while embedding it in posthuman feminist theory. This novel approach enriches the understanding of wild learning for sustainability and aims to provide a way forward.
Author: Reineke Susan van Tol
Institution: Wageningen University & Research
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4412047407