Network projects
The T-learning research, emerging from the focus on course activated Change Projects in participatory certificate courses, and consolidated through expansive research in the ISC research programme, has found meaning and extension via a number of associated projects which continue to emerge and grow through a range of partnerships.
A short overview of each project is provided in this section, with links to the associated project websites where much of the detail of the work is carried. Each project explore and expands different dimensions of ‘learning to transgress, and transgressing to learn’!
Our approach
In all our network projects, we reframe education for human and planetary well-being by advancing education as a common good. This aligns with the call for a new purpose for education in the 2021 Futures of Education intentions of UNESCO (2021; 2023), suggesting a new social contract for education focussing on planetary well-being, cultural inclusivity, and transformative pedagogies grounded in cooperation, collaboration and solidarity.
The critical pedagogical and curricular innovations that you will see in each project moves beyond standard Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development by foregrounding a decolonial, inclusive, reparative, and regenerative praxis rooted in the lifeworlds of communities most affected by environmental injustice.
As transformative environmental education requires a multi-dimensional, more holistic perspective, our pedagogical innovations move beyond individual cognitive and behavioral transformation. It advances and demonstrates an approach to transformative learning that is grounded in engagement with real-world processes, collaboration, and solidarity-building, developing agency for change. This approch connects knowledge, emotion, ethics, and action, enabling learners inside and outside the classroom to participate actively in processes of social and environmental change.
Until 2026, over 400 universities across Africa and Asia, and over 10,000 teachers and education officials in South Africa, have applied the T-learning Change Project model to transform curricula and pedagogy.
