ABSTRACT

McKanan explores rural alternative models of sustainability education – biodynamic apprenticeships and the Camphill Academy – in relation to his conventional, urban model of higher education. Mainstream and alternative educators, students, farmers, and Camphill residents with or without disabilities learn and work together at the intersection of ecological and social crises in two arenas: depopulation of rural communities and decline of purposeful human labor by automation. Sustained dialogue and relationship cultivate a transformative coalition with the potential to address these crises.