• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Mirroring, Gestaltswitching and transformative social learning : Stepping stones for developing sustainability competence : 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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  • Beschreibung: <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>