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Transformative Learning; Sustainability

How we came to inhabit these spaces: Reflections on the role of place in our individual and collective journeys as emerging sustainability scholars

2016

Mumbi Maina

This journal article explores how relationships to place inform our work as sustainability scholars, and the implications of such place analysis for Indigenous land recognition, decolonization, and sustainability scholarship.
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Eco-social Justice; Transformative Learning; Sustainability

Climate change and fossil fuel divestment movement in Canadian higher education: The mobilities of actions, actors, and tactics

2019

Mumbi Maina, Jaylene Murray, Maria McKenzie

This journal article examines the extent of fossil fuel divestment campaigns at higher education institutions across Canada, examining key actions and tactics through which campaigns are initiated and mobilized, as led by students, faculty, alumni, and climate justice organizations.
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Eco-social Justice; Decolonization; Reconciliation

Indigenous Rights and Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Great Bear Rainforest

2011

Maggie Low, Karena Shaw

This journal article examines the negotiations that led to the novel forms of environmental governance that are being deployed in the central and north coast of British Columbia, also known as the Great Bear Rainforest; important lessons can be learned from the processes that were used to reshape the future of this region.
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Transformative Innovation; Innovation Labs; Research Method; Transformative Learning

Exploring the Transformative Potential of Public Sector Innovation Labs: A Cabinet of Curiosities

2021

Lindsay Cole

This doctoral dissertation includes many topics related to public sector innovation and labs including: a comprehensive literature review; approaches to theorizing public sector innovation; exploring paradigms related to transformative innovation; and competencies, capacities, and capabilities for public sector innovation.
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Innovation lab; Transformative innovation

A Framework to Conceptualize Innovation Purpose in Public Sector Innovation Labs

2021

Lindsay Cole

This journal article draws from the expertise of public sector innovation lab practitioners, alongside theories about transformative innovation, to construct a framework to help labs to get clearer about what kind of innovations and impacts they are working toward.
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Eco-social Justice; Transformative Learning; Equity

Reimagining intersectionality in environmental and sustainability education: A critical literature review

2017

Mumbi Maina, Jada Renee Koushik, Alexandria Wilson

This journal article seeks to disrupt marginalization and calls for the use of critical frameworks such as intersectionality to deconstruct and disrupt oppression in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) literature, focusing on how gender is discussed in relation to other social identities such as class, race, sexuality, and ability.
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Eco-social Justice; Equity; Transformative Learning; Reconciliation

Embracing reconciliation in the face of adversity: An intersectional perspective on land, immigration, and anti-racist learning

2020

Mumbi Maina

This book chapter uses an intersectional perspective to understand reconciliation as it relates to land, immigration, and anti-racist education.
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Transformative Innovation; Innovation Lab

Moving toward paradigms and patterns of transformative innovation in public sector labs.

2021

Lindsay Cole

This short paper offers a framework that describes elements of a dominant paradigm of public sector innovation, in comparison to what elements of a more transformative, emergent, and resurgent paradigm of innovation might need to be/come.
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Eco-social justice; Transformative Learning

Living within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity: Towards an Education for Eco-Social-Cultural Change

2021

Sean Blenkinsop, Lindsay Cole, Mark Fettes et al

This research report gathers up and synthesizes a wide range of different thinking about theories, processes, and practices of eco-social-cultural change as they relate to educational processes, for people of all ages.
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Research Method; Innovation Lab

Assembling a Cabinet of Curiousities: Using Participatory Action Research and Constructivist Grounded Theory to Generate Stronger Theorization of Public Sector Innovation Labs.

2022

Lindsay Cole

This journal article describes the creative assemblage and use of participatory and community-engaged qualitative research methods to study public sector innovation labs.
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