Education for Sustainable Development – An Aporetic Approach

Abstract

At the centre of this contribution is the assertion, and its justification, that education for sustainable development is an aporetic enterprise: something with enmeshed contradictions that are irresolvable. The developed argument is not for the abandonment of these aspirations, programme and practice of education for sustainable development; their necessity is itself part of the aporia. Instead, it argues for an alternative research approach that takes the aporia as its starting point.