ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of experiential education in creating agency for transformative learning and methods of inquiry that foster and promote environmental sustainability. It provides some background and context relating to experiential education, transformative learning, and kincentricity, as a distinctive worldview. The chapter emphasizes the academic trends and environmental failings that indicate an urgent need for us to alter our approach, at a societal level, to how we relate to other species and the places that support us. It also presents three case studies to highlight a range of personal engagement and structural coordination in experiential education: the Pit-cooking class experience, the Redfish field experience and the Tribal Journeys experience. All three case examples include components of "transformative kincentric learning and living", an educational model that is adaptive, dynamic, and holistic, and involves the whole learner, their community, and the natural learning environment.
