Awakening Sleepy Knowledge: Extrarational Pedagogies and Transformative Learning in Environmental Justice Education

Centuries of settler-colonial capitalist hegemony have deeply embedded violent paradigms separation and hierarchy in our societal structures internalized ideologies, ultimately manifesting global climate justice crises. We argue, therefore, that addressing the socio-ecological catastrophes we currently face necessitates an inclusive engagement with a diversity ways knowing often overlooked or actively repressed by dominant epistemologies. Dismantling oppressive begins critically examining how they manifest within habits mind so can then see beyond them—to capture what was lost, is hidden, could be. Drawing on theories, this largely conceptual paper calls for (re)introduction pedagogies engage creativity extrarational senses to help transform perspectives toward environmental justice. Extrarational provide space challenge paradigms, empathetically experiment creative alternatives, increase learners’ sense agency, overturn notion are powerless change circumstances. Such promote perspective shifts solidarity, compassionate accountability, increased awareness interconnectivity collective survival well-being.