Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: TESF India Hub Synthesis Report

The Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) network was funded by the UK government's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and involved partners from India, Rwanda, Somalia/ Somaliland, South Africa, the Netherlands and the UK. The network was initiated in 2019 and officially ended as a funded initiative in 2023. The purpose of TESF was to provide better understanding of how education can be transformed to support sustainable livelihoods, sustainable cities and communities and climate action. Aligned with these concerns in the contexts of India, Rwanda, Somalia/Somaliland, and South Africa, a focus of the network was to tackle intersecting inequalities including those based on gender, socio-economic status, race, class, languages, coloniality, and Indigeneity. Overall, the network funded 67 projects across the four countries of research focus. 

TESF India commissioned a total of 23 projects across diverse areas and methods of enquiry, various geographical sites and communities with a range of research questions and points of intervention, to explore the dynamic relationship between education and sustainable futures. This document presents a synthesis of the insights that have emerged from commissioned research under the India hub of the TESF network.

This report is one of five synthesis resources produced by the TESF Network . The TESF Synthesis reports are:

Tusiime, M., Imaniriho, D., Ruvugabugwi, E., Batamuliza, G., & Kanamugire, M. (2023). Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: Rwanda Hub Synthesis Report. Kigali, TESF Rwanda. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10532352

Ismail, L., Ali, A., Herring, E., & Elmi, M. (2023). Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: Somalia/Somaliland Hub Synthesis Report. Hargeisa, TESF Somalia/Somaliland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10532562

Batra, P., Bazaz, A., Dixit, S., & Sadh, S. (2023). Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: TESF India Hub Synthesis Report. New Delhi, TESF India-IIHS. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10532605

Lotz-Sisitka, H., Chakona, G., Rosenberg, G. & Kulundu-Bolus, I. (2023). Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: TESF South Africa Hub Synthesis Report. Makhanda, TESF South Africa. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10532641

TESF Collective.  2023.  Knowledge Co-creation in Action: Learning from the Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Network. A methodological sourcebook. Bristol, TESF. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10179676