The Poor just Might Be the Educators We Need for Global Sustainability—A Manifesto for Consulting the Unconsulted

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Future Trends in Education

“…need to be helped" "rather than experts to be engaged and heeded." We are therefore underutilizing this valuable "bi-directional" resource (Luetz et al 2019).…”

Impacts of climate change to African indigenous communities and examples of adaptation responses

“…Over recent years, scholars have drawn attention to the underappreciated potential of ILK to help manage and redress food insecurity in the face of climate change 6 , including Africa 7 . Moreover, scholars have called for so-called reversals of learning whereby indigenous communities, which are sometimes denigrated simply as being poor, rather "teach the profligate and socalled 'developed' rich about the interwoven nature of frugality, modesty, contentedness, spirituality and sustainability" 8 . There is, therefore, a compelling case to engage closely with ILK so that it may more effectively inform the global climate-change adaptation agenda.…”