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Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces

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Editors:
  1. Melanie Walker

    1. University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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  2. Alejandra Boni

    1. INGENIO (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia), Valencia, Valéncia, Spain

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  3. Diana Velasco

    1. INGENIO (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia), Valéncia, Spain

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  • Draws together perspectives from the Global South and North

  • Includes analysis of participatory processes

  • Examines both formal and informal learning spaces

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Reparative Futures Through Transformative Learning Spaces: An Intersectional Approach for Decolonised and Sustainable Human Development

    • Melanie Walker, Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco
    Pages 1-23

  3. Post-Truth, Difficult Knowledge, and Reparative Futures: Nurturing Affective Solidarity for Transformative Learning Spaces

    • Michalinos Zembylas
    Pages 25-44

  4. Youth Voices on Social Justice: Doing Repair Work in a South African Higher Education Space

    • Melanie Walker
    Pages 45-68

  5. Epistemic Resilience: Articulating Struggles and Dreams from the Co-production of Knowledge from Below Between Universities and Community Researchers

    • Monique Leivas Vargas, Álvaro Fernández-Baldor
    Pages 69-87

  6. Towards an Ubuntu and Capabilities-Based Conceptualisation of Sustainable Educational Futures in the South African University: Perspectives from Student Activists

    • C. Martinez-Vargas, M. Mathebula, F. Mkwananzi, B. Kibona, T. Malatji, T. Mahlatsi et al.
    Pages 89-109

  7. Fostering a Reparative International Development Cooperation System: Transformative Learning in a Master’s Degree in Development Cooperation

    • Carlos Delgado-Caro, Carola Calabuig-Tormo, Marta Maicas-Pérez
    Pages 111-136

  8. The Latin-American Hub of Transformative Innovation: A Collaborative Space Promoting Collective Learning Towards More Just and Sustainable Futures

    • Paloma Bernal-Hernández, Martha Liliana Marín
    Pages 137-161

  9. Imaging and Realising Futures in Catalonia: Shared Agendas for Just Sustainability Transitions

    • Diana Velasco, Míriam Acebillo-Baqué, Alejandra Boni, Tatiana Fernández
    Pages 163-187

  10. Peacebuilding as Democratic Political Education: A Project from Archive to Repertoire

    • Stephen L. Esquith, Weloré Tamboura
    Pages 189-216

  11. Reparative Threads that Open Up Futures: The Experience of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Honduras

    • Fernando Altamira, Esther Canarias, Ricardo Fernández, Nelsy Elizabeth Sandoval
    Pages 217-238

  12. Philosophical Inquiry and the Childness of Communities: Connective Capabilities for Flourishing Education

    • Marina Santi, Elisabetta Ghedin
    Pages 239-262

  13. Transformative Learning Spaces and Capabilities for Reimagined and Reparative Futures in Multiple Systems

    • Alejandra Boni, Melanie Walker, Diana Velasco
    Pages 263-275

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 277-281
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About this book

This edited book draws on an international cohort of authors, all working towards sustainable, decolonizing human development for more just futures in a variety of learning spaces. Integrating sustainable human development with ‘reparative futures’, the chapters present diverse examples of how transformative learning spaces can be created through different participatory methodologies and with different stakeholders. The book will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, practitioners and policymakers in the areas of higher education, development studies and transformative innovation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

    Melanie Walker

  • INGENIO (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia), Valencia, Valéncia, Spain

    Alejandra Boni

  • INGENIO (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia), Valéncia, Spain

    Diana Velasco

About the editors

Melanie Walker is South African Research Chair in Higher Education and Human Development at University of the Free State, South Africa.

Alejandra Boni is Full Professor and Deputy Director of INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) at The Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and Extraordinary Professor at University of the Free State, South Africa.

Diana Velasco is Research Fellow at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) at The Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces

  • Editors: Melanie Walker, Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45806-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45805-7Published: 20 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45808-8Due: 03 February 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45806-4Published: 19 January 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 281

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International and Comparative Education, Development Studies, Higher Education, Economic Growth, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

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