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Hire Dr. Thomas K.J. M.

Norway

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Writer and researcher | PhD in Education | Academic editor with 10+ years of experience | Thesis & Dissertation Coach

Profile Summary

• Ph.D. in Education and Sustainability (Wageningen University, NL), M.Sc. International Development studies, specializing in rural anthropology. Over 15 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. Currently employed as a research fellow by UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), working on the International Science and Evidence based Education (ISEE) Assessment. • General research areas: Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Environmental Education (EE), Community-based learning, rural anthropology, social movements in Latin America (e.g. Buen Vivir), decolonization studies, regenerative education, critical pedagogies, transformative/transgressive learning, agroecology and permaculture (both as social movements and practical examples). • Methodologies Action-research, with a focus on participatory and transformative forms of knowledge generation and action-based change Narrative inquiry, exploring the meaning of personal stories and events around climate change in grassroots initiatives in Colombia, South America • Methods: Art-based methods: Visual (photovoice), Narrative (life-histories), Performative (participatory video) Ethnographic: participant observation, Semi-structured interviews, focus groups

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Environmental Education
• ★ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ★ Sustainable Development
• ☆ Agronomy & Crop Science
• ☆ Organic Farming
• ☆ Anthropology
• ☆ Ethnology & Ethnography
• ☆ Community Development
• ☆ Latin American Studies
• ☆ Research

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Work Experience

Postdoc Research Fellow

UNESCO MGIEP

July 2020 - Present

Project Leader

Fundación Mentes en Transición (Transitional Minds)

February 2019 - Present

Education

PhD Education and Sustainability (Education and Learning Sciences group)

Wageningen University & Research

June 2016 - November 2019

MSc International Development Studies (Sociology of Development and Change Group)

wageningen University and Research

September 2008 - May 2010

Bachelor of Commerce, Major in Economics

University of Otago

February 2004 - November 2008

Bachelor of Science, Major in Genetics

University of Otago

February 2004 - November 2008

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

OTHER

Thomas Macintyre, Sjors Witjes, Sigurd Vildåsen, Mónica Ramos-Mejía(2020). Embracing transdisciplinary tensions on the road to 2030 . Transdisciplinarity For Sustainability. p. 179--199. Routledge

Thomas Macintyre, Martha Chaves, Sofia Villa-Barajas, Andres Makú-Pardo(2017). 13. Educating for development or educating for the good life? Buen vivir imaginaries and the creation of one’s own myth . Envisioning futures for environmental and sustainability education. p. 193--204. Wageningen Academic Publishers

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Thomas Macintyre, Valentina C. Tassone, Arjen E. J. Wals (2020). Capturing Transgressive Learning in Communities Spiraling towards Sustainability . Sustainability.

Thomas K.J. Macintyre, Valentina C. Tassone, Valentina Tassone (2020). Capturing Transgressive Learning in Communities Spiraling towards Sustainability . Sustainability.

Thomas Macintyre, Martha Chaves, Tatiana Monroy, Margarita O. Zethelius, Tania Villarreal, Valentina C. Tassone, Arjen E. J. Wals(2020). Transgressing Boundaries between Community Learning and Higher Education: Levers and Barriers . Sustainability. 12. (7). p. 2601. {MDPI} {AG}

Thomas K.J. Macintyre, Martha Chaves, Tatiana Monroy, Margarita O. Zethelius, Tania Villarreal, Valentina Tassone, arjen wals (2020). Transgressing Boundaries between Community Learning and Higher Education: Levers and Barriers . Sustainability.

Thomas Macintyre, Tatiana Monroy, David Coral, Margarita Zethelius, Valentina Tassone, Arjen EJ Wals(2019). T-labs and climate change narratives: Co-researcher qualities in transgressive action–research . Action Research. 17. (1). p. 63--86. {SAGE} Publications

Martha Chaves, Thomas Macintyre, Gerard Verschoor, Arjen E.J. Wals(2018). Radical ruralities in practice: Negotiating buen vivir in a Colombian network of sustainability . Journal of Rural Studies. 59. p. 153--162. Elsevier {BV}

Thomas Macintyre, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Arjen Wals, Coleen Vogel, Valentina Tassone (2018). Towards transformative social learning on the path to 1.5 degrees . Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Martha Chaves, Thomas Macintyre, Gerard Verschoor, Arjen Wals(2016). Towards Transgressive Learning through Ontological Politics: Answering the “Call of the Mountain” in a Colombian Network of Sustainability . Sustainability. 9. (1). p. 21. {MDPI} {AG}

(2016). Towards Transgressive Learning through Ontological Politics: Answering the “Call of the Mountain” in a Colombian Network of Sustainability . Sustainability.

M Chaves, T Macintyre, E Riano, J Calero, A Wals (2015). Death and rebirth of Atlántida: The role of social learning in bringing about transformative sustainability processes in an ecovillage Southern African Journal of Environmental Education. 31, 22-32 .

DISSERTATION THESIS

Thomas Macintyre The transgressive gardener : Cultivating learning-based transformations towards regenerative futures . Wageningen University and Research