This paper aims to understand how T-learning helps communities achieve better sustainability outcomes. On the basis of an intensive literature review and field research conducted in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, the paper proposes a substantial linkage between T-learning and sustainability. It first outlines the environmental changes in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, which appear to serve as “disorienting dilemmas” that force local people to learn and gradually shift their farming practices to align with a climate-resilient development. The paper relies on the outcomes of household surveys, field observations and focus group discussions to explore the impacts of T-learning on building adaptive capacity and sustainability transition in two community-based projects in Can Tho City and Ca Mau province in the Mekong Delta. Our findings reveal that T-learning enables experts and practitioners to introduce new ideas and accordingly mobilize local people to make changes without inciting doubt, dismay or concern. In an ideal T-learning approach, small-scale farmers learn from being under the supervision of experts in “field-based schools” that offer real-life experience and encourage learners to shift their livelihoods to eco-friendly agricultural practices. The paper sheds new light on how a critical approach to education for sustainable development through T-learning can be, under specific conditions, one strategy. It concludes that T-learning should be acknowledged as a potentially important part of the broader approach to climate-resilient development in vulnerable grassroots communities.

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变革性学习与基层气候适应：越南湄公河三角洲的案例研究

本文旨在了解T学习如何帮助社区实现更好的可持续性成果。在越南湄公河三角洲进行的深入文献回顾和实地研究的基础上，本文提出了T学习与可持续性之间的实质性联系。它首先概述了越南湄公河三角洲的环境变化，这些变化似乎是“迷惑性的困境”，迫使当地人学习并逐渐改变其耕作方式，以适应气候变化的发展。本文依靠住户调查，实地观察和焦点小组讨论的结果，探讨了T-学习对湄公河三角洲芹T市和Ca Mau省两个社区项目建设适应能力和可持续性转型的影响。我们的发现表明，T-学习使专家和从业人员能够提出新的想法，从而动员当地人民做出改变，而不会引起怀疑，沮丧或担忧。在理想的T学习方法中，小农在“实地学校”的专家指导下学习，这些学校提供真实的生活经验，并鼓励学习者将生计转向生态友好型农业实践。本文为在特定条件下如何通过T型学习对可持续发展教育进行批判的一种方法提供了新的思路。结论是，在脆弱的基层社区，更广泛的应对气候变化能力发展方法应被认为是远程学习的重要组成部分。