Research article

Critical realist approaches to global learning: A focus on education for sustainability

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Abstract

Critical realism offers a useful epistemology and ontology for conceptualizing theoretical and methodological considerations in global learning and may help to bridge the quantitative/qualitative divide that plagues social science. This article elaborates critical realist principles, concepts and methodologies to explain how they can be employed within global learning, with examples from education for sustainability.

Keywords: ONTOLOGICAL REALISM, EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM, JUDGEMENTAL RATIONALITY, EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE

How to Cite:

Khazem, D., (2018) “Critical realist approaches to global learning: A focus on education for sustainability”, International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning 10(2), 125–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.18546/IJDEGL.10.2.02

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