Social learning towards a sustainable world : principles, perspectives, and praxis / edited by Arjen E.J. Wals.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wals, Arjen E. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer education.

Social learning.

Social responsibility of business--Study and teaching.

Social responsibility of business.

Sustainable development--Study and teaching.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Wageningen], The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2009, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability. Social learning is explored from a range of fields challenged by sustainability including: organizational learning, environmental management and corporate social responsibility; multi-stakeholder governance; education, learning and educational psychology; multiple land-use and integrated rural development; and consumerism and critical consumer education. An entire section of the book is devoted to a number of reflective case studies of people, organizations and communities using forms of social learning in moving towards sustainability. 'This book brings together a range of ideas, stories, and discussions about purposeful learning in communities aimed at creating a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. ...The book is designed to expand the network of conversations through which our society can confront various perspectives, discover emerging patterns, and apply learning to a variety of emotional and social contexts.' From the Foreword by Fritjof Capra, co-founder of the Center of Ecoliteracy. 'Joining what is so clear and refreshing in this book with the larger movements toward a critically democratic and activist education that is worthy of its name, is but one step in the struggle for sustainability. But it is an essential step if we are to use the insights that are included in this book.' From the Afterword by Michael Apple, author of 'Educating the ""Right"" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality'.".

Contents:

Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword to social learning towards a more sustainable world; Fritjof Capra; Introduction ; Arjen E. J. Wals and Tore van der Leij; Part I Principles; Minding the gap: The role of social learning in linking our stated desire for a more sustainable world to our everyday actions and policies; Harold Glasser; Riding the storm: towards a connective cultural consciousness; Dr Stephen Sterling; The practical value of theory: Conceptualising learning in the pursuit of a sustainable development; Anne Loeber, Barbara van Mierlo, John Grin and Cees Leeuwis

Social learning revisited: Lessons learned from North and SouthDanny Wildemeersch; Learning based change for sustainability: Perspectives and pathways; Daniella Tilbury; The critical role of civil society in fostering societal learning for a sustainable world; Richard Bawden, Irene Guijt and Jim Woodhill; From risk to resilience: What role for community greening and civic ecology in cities? ; Keith G. Tidball and Marianne E. Krasny; Reaching into the holomovement: A Bohmian perspective on social learning for sustainability ; David Selby

Towards sustainability: Five strands of social learning Robert Dyball, Valerie A. Brown and Meg Keen; Part II Perspectives; Participatory planning in protected areas: Exploring the social-science contribution; Joke Vandenabeele and Lieve Goorden; Social learning amongst social and environmental standard-setting organizations: The case of smallholder certification in the sasa project ; Rhiannon Pyburn; Social learning processes and sustainable development: The emergence and transformation of an indigenous land use system in the Andes of Bolivia; Stephan Rist, Freddy Delgado and Urs Wiesmann

From centre of excellence to centre of expertise: Regional centres of expertise in education for sustainable developmentZinaida Fadeeva ; Learning about corporate social responsibility from a sustainable development perspective: A Dutch experiment; Jacqueline Cramer and Anne Loeber ; Social learning for sustainable development: embracing technical and cultural change as originally inspired by the natural step; Hilary Bradbury; Corporate social responsibility: Towards a new dialogue?; Peter Lund-Thomsen ; Social learning as action inquiry: Exploring education for sustainable societies

Paul HartSocial learning and resistance: Towards contingent agency; Marcia McKenzie; Sustainability through vicarious learning: Reframing consumer education; Sue McGregor; Social learning for sustainability in a consumerist society; C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen; Part III Praxis; Partnerships between environmentalists and farmers for sustainable development: A case of Kabukuri-numa and the adjacent rice fields in the town of Tajiri in Northern Japan; Yoko Mochizuki ; Social learning in the straw project ; Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow

Social learning in situations of competing claims on water use

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

90-8686-594-1

OCLC:

846996769