Transformation through transition: Transition Tours as fieldwork partners delivering Sustainable Education in GEES

Abstract

Abstract Sustainability is a key issue in Higher Education (HE). HE’s approach to the overlapping challenges of sustainability will determine its future success. Sustainability research and policy at all levels recognise the need for deep changes to HE and student learning, yet these changes are largely missing from campus and classroom practice. This paper reports on collaborative, in-depth research with Transition Tours, a social enterprise emerging from the Transition Town Movement and considers its potential to foster transformational learning for sustainable education within Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) fieldwork.