Reflecting on Partnerships of Sustainability Learning: Enacting a Lewin–Deleuze–Guattari Rhizome

Tanja Tillmanns and Alfredo Salomão Filho
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Tanja Tillmanns: Center for Business Education, Department of Electrical Engineering, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, 59494 Soest, Germany
Alfredo Salomão Filho: School of Policy and Practice, Institute of Education, Dublin City University, DO9DW93 Dublin 9, Ireland

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-11

Abstract: This paper works towards the enactment of a Lewin–Deleuze–Guattari rhizome. We assemble Deleuze and Guattari’s principles of the rhizome, Lewin’s idea of re-education, and reflections on the performance of one of the authors in the lecture hall, bringing into being what could be a rhizomatic partnership approach to sustainability learning in a higher education setting. The reflections are based on experiences delivering a sustainability module within a business education context, mainly for international students in Germany. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate possibilities of student–teacher partnership assemblages, aiming to motivate sustainability change agency on “people-yet-to-come”: those who are open to enacting difference , or multifaceted, heterogeneous, and often partial transformations addressing the current plethora of contemporary crises.

Keywords: rhizome; transformation; sustainability education; teacher–student partnership; change agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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