Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. Reflecting these themes this book places emphasis on community wisdom. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region. Contributions from researchers active within local communities help build knowledge capacity and support for collaborative research.

Highlights the imperative of listening to local communities when designing policy changes Provides case studies that illustrate the intersection between everyday life, events and consequences Proposes a theoretical position on what it means to be a citizen within the Asian/Pacific region

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Margaret Robertson is Professor of Education at La Trobe University. Teaching interests in geographical education and innovative pedagogy complement long-standing research interests in youth studies and cross-cultural differences. Outreach interests include membership of the Steering Committee for the International Year of Global Understanding project which is an initiative of the International Geographical Union.
Eric Po Keung Tsang is an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education specialising in feasibility and environmental impact assessment studies. He also acts as the associate director of the UNEVOC Centre (HK), China and chairman of Green Power a major green group in Hong Kong. He is also a panel member of the Advisory Council on the Environment HKSAR and the International Year of Global Understanding, initiated by the International Geographical Union(IGU).

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1 Introduction and Overview.- 2 Knowledge, Change and Everyday Living.- 3 Conversation about the Politics of Everyday Knowledge at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies on 14th August 2014.- 4 Negotiating Chineseness and Capitalising on Resources through Learning Chinese Heritage Language: Habitus and Capital in Fields.- 5 Matariki Tpuapua: Pools of Traditional Knowledge and Currents of Change.- 6 Transformative Maternities: Indigenous Stories as Resistance and Reclamation in Aotearoa, New Zealand.- 7 Mongolian Nomads: Effects of Globalisation and Social Change.- 8 Everyday Knowledge and Disaster Management: The Role of Social Media.- 9 Challenges to the Democratisation of Knowledge: Status Hierarchies and Emerging Inequalities in Educational Opportunities amongst Oil Palm Settlers in Papua New Guinea.- 10 Sustainability In and Through Lifelong Learning: Making Space for Everyday Knowledge and Regionalism in a Globalising World.- 11 Global Agendas versus Local Needs in Educational Development: The Barefoot College's Solar Night Schools Program in India.- 12 Developing Curriculum Leadership among Teachers for School-Based Curriculum Innovation in Hong Kong: A Distributed and Problem Solving Approach.- 13 Creating an Ecology of Affordance to Allow Australian Pre-service Teachers to get to Know and Make Sense of China.- 14 Post-Carbon Futures for Geography Education?.- 15 The Stuff That Matters to Me: An Exploration of Melbourne's Peri-urban Fringe from the Perspectives of Young People.- 16 Everyday Political Knowledge and the Construction of Regional Identity: The East Asian Experience.- 17 The Everyday Dynamic in Space and Place.