ABSTRACT
This chapter examines education in relation to the social change process of alternative worldmaking. Colonialism is ongoing, and so truth telling, reconciliation, restoration, indigenizing, and decolonizing are key elements of Transformative Sustainability Education. The esteemed Ugandan development education professor, Catherine Odora Hoppers, directly links theft of territory with theft of knowledge and biopiracy. Honouring our cosmos by learning this new Gaia cosmology and our human presence in it should be a core part of reimagining education. It is the cosmic dimension of learning “all our relations.” An Earth-based cosmology is also present in ancient myths, such as those about the Great Goddess or Mother Goddess, revered throughout the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Early Bronze ages. Indigenous peoples build their structures as sacred architecture in which every element connects to their living cosmology, past, and future.
