Awakening Sleepy Knowledge: Transformative Learning in Action. Final Report of the Transformative Learning through Environmental Action Project.

This document summarizes and presents materials produced during a qualitative international study of the role of transformative learning in achieving sustainable societies and global responsibility that included the following activities: case studies of experiences with transformative learning in seven countries; international survey and workshop; and establishment of an electronic computer-based network for administration of the project. The document begins with an overview of the project's objectives, methodology, and findings. Presented next are the following case study and working reports: "Transformative Learning through Environmental Action: Berlin and Brandenburg as Centers of Environmental Activism, Organic Food Consumption and Organic Gardening and Farming" (Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen); "Case Study from Sudan-Africa" (Naila Babiker Hijazi); "Case Study Brazil: Women in Citizen's Action: In the Struggle against Hunger and Poverty and in Defense of Life" (Morma Viezzer and Teriza Moreira); "Transformative Learning in Marginal Areas of Indigenous Migrants in an Amazon City [Aprendizaje Transformativo en Areas Marginales de Migrantes Indigenas en Una Ciudad Amazonica]" (Geog Omar Ovalles); "People's Rights, Environmental Education and Ecological Action for Sustainability: El Salvador" (Marta Benavides); "Community-Based Rural Development Project as a Vehicle to Community Ownership, Empowerment and Cultural Recovery--A Draft Working Paper of the Case Study" (Jose Zarate); "'Navdanya'--A Grass Roots Movement to Conserve Biodiversity and Sustain Food Security" (Vanaja Ramprasad); "Transformative Learning: Contexts and Practices--A Working Paper" (Budd Hall, Ed Sullivan); "Gender, Transformative Learning, and Environmental Action" (Darlene Clover); and "Food for Thought and Sustenance" (Leesa Fawcett). Concluding the document are a 28-item reference list, a 99-item annotated bibliography, and the proceedings of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) workshop. (MN)