Multidisciplinary Pedagogies for Inclusive Learning Environments in Urban Margins
Muhammet BAŞ, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Türkiye

This paper examines how inclusive pedagogies and diverse educational practices can generate new knowledge ecosystems for sustainability, particularly in non-Western metropolitan contexts. Drawing on research into inclusive education and critical teacher development in Türkiye and the Eastern Mediterranean, it presents empirical findings that challenge dominant Eurocentric frameworks in sustainability education. Using participatory action research and long-term collaboration with educators and marginalised communities, the study explores pedagogies rooted in local knowledge, cultural memory, and creative co-learning as alternative indicators of sustainability. By integrating perspectives from teacher education, educational leadership, and social justice-oriented pedagogy, the lecture contributes to WG1’s aim of rethinking circularity in education. Schools are examined as active sites of socio-ecological transformation, where learning spaces are co-designed as inclusive, dialogic, and creative environments that foster collective agency. Aligned with the CIRCUL’ARTs framework, the presentation highlights participatory governance, decolonial epistemologies, and capacity-building models that make sustainability meaningful and actionable across cultural, territorial, and institutional contexts.