Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures: Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Asia-Pacific Region

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-9
Knowledge, Change and Everyday Living....Pages 11-23
A Conversation About the Politics of Everyday Knowledge at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies on the 14th of August 2014....Pages 25-40
Negotiating Chineseness and Capitalising on Resources Through Learning Chinese Heritage Language: Habitus and Capital in Fields....Pages 41-58
Matariki Tāpuapua: Pools of Traditional Knowledge and Currents of Change....Pages 59-70
Transformative Maternities: Indigenous Stories as Resistance and Reclamation in Aotearoa New Zealand....Pages 71-88
Mongolian Nomads: Effects of Globalization and Social Change....Pages 89-105
Everyday Knowledge and Disaster Management: The Role of Social Media....Pages 107-121
Challenges to the Democratisation of Knowledge: Status Hierarchies and Emerging Inequalities in Educational Opportunities Amongst Oil Palm Settlers in Papua New Guinea....Pages 123-139
Sustainability in and through Lifelong Learning: Making Space for Everyday Knowledge and Regionalism in a Globalising World....Pages 141-158
Global Agendas Versus Local Needs in Educational Development: The Barefoot College’s Solar Night Schools Program in India....Pages 159-175
Developing Curriculum Leadership Among Teachers for School-Based Curriculum Innovations in Hong Kong: A Distributed and Problem-Solving Approach....Pages 177-193
Creating an Ecology of Affordances to Allow Australian Pre-service Teachers to Get to Know and Make Sense of China....Pages 195-208
Post-carbon Futures for Geography Education?....Pages 209-222
The Stuff That Matters to Me: An Exploration of Melbourne’s Peri-urban Fringe from the Perspectives of Young People....Pages 223-236
Everyday Political Knowledge and the Construction of Regional Identity: The East Asian Experience....Pages 237-253
The Everyday Dynamic in Space and Place....Pages 255-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-265