Circular Pedagogy: Challenges and Pillars
Keywords:
Waste, Linear Economy, Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, Circular PedagogyAbstract
This concept research is situated within the field of sustainable education and examines educational practices from the perspective of the circular economy. The research focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of circular pedagogy, whose aim is to eliminate waste throughout the life cycle of products and services. Based on a socio-constructivist process, this article aims to deconstruct the linear economic model of “extract-produce-consume-discard”, which is at the origin of greenhouse gas emissions and significant environmental degradation. In this perspective, circular pedagogy no longer considers products at the end of their life cycle as waste, but rather as secondary raw materials.
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