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  • Problematizing the processes of participation in networks: working through the rhetoric

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    Ferreira, Jo-Anne
    Davis, Julie
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    Ferreira, Jo-Anne L.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Participation in networks, both as a concept and process, is widely supported in environmental education as a democratic and equitable pathway to individual and social change for sustainability. However, the processes of participation in networks are rarely problematized. Rather, it is assumed that we inherently know how to participate in networks. This assumption means that participation is seldom questioned. Underlying support for participation in networks is a belief that it allows individuals to connect in new and meaningful ways, individ- uals can engage in making decisions and in bringing about change in arenas that ...
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    Participation in networks, both as a concept and process, is widely supported in environmental education as a democratic and equitable pathway to individual and social change for sustainability. However, the processes of participation in networks are rarely problematized. Rather, it is assumed that we inherently know how to participate in networks. This assumption means that participation is seldom questioned. Underlying support for participation in networks is a belief that it allows individuals to connect in new and meaningful ways, individ- uals can engage in making decisions and in bringing about change in arenas that affect them and that they will be engaging in new, non-hierarchical and equita- ble relationships. In this paper, we problematize participation in networks. As an example, we use research into a decentralized network - described as such in its own literature - the Queensland Environmentally Sustainable Schools Initiative Alliance in Australia - to argue that while network participants were engaged and committed to participation in this network, 'old' forms of top-down engage- ment and relationships needed to be unlearnt. This paper thus proposes that for participation in decentralized networks to be meaningful, new learning about how to participate needs to occur.
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    Journal Title
    Environmental Education Research
    Volume
    18
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2011.643226
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Curriculum and pedagogy
    Specialist studies in education
    Sociology of education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/47909
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