Regenerative values in sustainability education: Learning with ecological family

Regenerative sustainability education is revitalising sustainable ways to live through restoring place-knowledges, reviving health and rejuvenating climates and species. It is intentionally decolonising, that is, it stands against structural and systemic forcefulness. This chapter shows how regenerative sustainability education creates new narratives that include ancient knowledges and ways of knowing, being, seeing, hearing and feeling. These are re-emerging alongside innovative, active regeneration of place-cultures everywhere. It illustrates the way four regenerative educators walk as a learning practice to experience participation in an animate, sentient and sapient more-than-human world. They use walking as a way to renew relationships and understandings of relationality and to refine place-based learning. In this way, walking is a way for humans to re-introduce themselves to ecological families and come to know themselves as active participants inside environments rather than separated from them. Walking practitioners are likely to discover they already live in layered worlds of relationships, and now it is time to participate in the reciprocity of mutual care. Regenerative sustainability education is important because it offers hope for new ways of knowing, doing and being in modernity. Regenerative education is interdisciplinary and is everybody’s business.