Learning Relationality for
Sustainability Transformations
Introduction
This toolkit offers a set of four sandboxes. Each provides a framework to foster relational thinking in the classroom or other education settings. The toolkit invites facilitators and students to learn together about relationality and its role in sustainability transformations as they practice relational ways of knowing and being.
Course Objectives
Showing connections between relational learning and pluriversality
Using tools to bridge diverse knowledge systems
Applying practices to connect ways of knowing with how we relate to others
Facilitating a comfort zone to experience pluriversality and framing learning as a relational process
Brian Grant is a PhD Candidate at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability and the College of Global Futures.
David Manuel-Navarrete is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability and the College of Global Futures.
Incorporating land acknowledgement practices into education settings is important for sustainability to promote awareness of colonization. It is fundamental for relationality and relational approaches to education because it can be a step toward building relationships of solidarity, respect, and reciprocity with Indigenous communities.*
*Scholars have been critical of land acknowledgements and raise important considerations for developing such a practice.
ASU Indigenous Land Acknowledgement For more information about ASU’s Land Acknowledgement process, click here