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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Mirroring, Gestaltswitching and transformative social learning : Stepping stones for developing sustainability competence
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Stepping stones for developing sustainability competence
Beteiligte:
Wals, Arjen E.J.
Erschienen:
Emerald, 2010
Erschienen in:International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1108/14676371011077595
ISSN:
1467-6370
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<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>The purpose of this paper is to identify components and educational design principles for strengthening sustainability competence in and through higher education.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>This is a conceptual paper that uses an exemplary autobiographical empirical case study in order to illustrate and support a line of reasoning.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>A number of “Gestalts” of mind‐sets of sustainability competence and key elements of the learning processes needed for developing such competence have been identified.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>This is one of the first papers to consider sustainability competence from a transformative social learning perspective. The value of the paper lies in its potential to help teachers of university courses in re‐designing their educational processes with sustainability competence in mind.</jats:p></jats:sec>