The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want

The question for those of us in the business of thinking, propagating ideas, and equipping youth for lives in a confusing and uncertain world is what do we do? Living in the shadows or the sunlight of our legacy, what would our great-great-grandchildren wish us to have done?

A few thoughts on transition education

What are the chances that societies defined today by consumerism, profit-driven production, and plutocratic governance will transition to societies that instead enshrine ecological limits, needs-based production, and democracy, in the face of what is likely to be unprecedented opposition from corporate elites, without an effective mass education effort?