Social Learning Towards a Sustainable World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9086860311 ISBN 13: 9789086860319

Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

"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'."

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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'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9086860311
• ISBN 13: 9789086860319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 538
• Editor: Wals Arjen E.J.