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Blurring Boundaries and Expanding Horizons – Re-thinking education and...
Although technological advances, new policies, laws and legislation are essential in moving towards sustainability, it is not enough! Ultimately, sustainability needs to emerge in the everyday fabric...
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“We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom” (E.O. Wilson)* – A...
….to help create the wisdom we – all 7 billion of us – will need to transition towards a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. We live in turbulent times. Changes occur...
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Deconstructing a Happy Meal – making everyday life routine practices a source...
“Today we’re going to study the food pyramid for healthy living!” the High School Social Science teacher Mark told his class. Mark was excited about launching a healthy food project that would enable...
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Plastic heroes, plant bottles and other sustainability myths –...
Nice to be invited last night (November 24th, 2011) by the environmental science student club of Wageningen University to talk about “plastics”. (For a description of the symposium + a link to the...
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Action Research & Community Problem Solving and The Acoustics of Social Learning
Recently I re-visited The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where I once was a PhD-student with the late Bill Stapp, considered the founding father of Environmental Education, as my mentor. During...
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Re-orienting, re-connecting and re-imagining – learning for sustainability in...
There may be trouble ahead, ……Before they ask us to pay the bill, And while we still have the chance, Let’s face the music and dance. Irvine Berlin, 1936 “There are three people in a vehicle. In this...
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Milestone in an evolving field: International Handbook of Research on...
2013 marks the year in which the world’s largest and most diverse educational research organization – the AERA – jointly with Routledge, published the International Handbook of Research on...
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Sustainability in higher education in the context of the UN Decade of...
Sustainability in higher education in the context of the UN DESD: a review of learning and institutionalization processes” is a paper that was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Cleaner...
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The educational appeal of vagueness: the case of biodiversity
Loss of biodiversity is back on the agenda having faded somewhat during the last 15 years or so with the rise of new urgent issues such as runaway climate change, loss of food security, the rise of...
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Strengthening ecological mindfulness through hybrid learning in vital coalitions
New article written by Jifke Sol & Arjen Wals published in a journal called Cultural Studies of Science Education DOI: 10.1007/s11422-014-9586-z / Online Date: 6/11/2014 In this new paper a key...
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Transformative, transgressive social learning: rethinking higher education...
This weekend (September 12-13, 2015) an new publication appeared that I was privileged to co-author with Heila Lotz-Sisitka (Rhodes University), David Kronlid (University of Uppsala) and Gothenburg),...
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“Beyond unreasonable doubt – learning for socio-ecological sustainability…”
As my ‘special professorship’ has been converted into a ‘personal professorship,’ (I know this is confusing to academics from around the world but I don’t want to use up valuable blog-space to explain...
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Global Environmental Education and Wicked Problems – free Online Course
What a global response! There is still one week to go to: http://www.globalee.net to register for this fascinating course that has already attracted more than 2500 students and professionals from over...
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Transformative Learning for Sustainability: Special Issue
Ariane König and Nancy Budwig have edited a cutting edge Special Issue for the Journal Current Opinions of Environmental Sustainability on Transformative Learning for Sustainability and more...
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Moving from Citizen Science to Civic Science in Tackling Wicked Conservation...
(note the cover page above is not the one of the current issue). Together with good friends and colleagues, Justin Dillon and Bob Stevenson I was given the opportunity to edit a Special Section for...
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Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and Practice – now available!
Australian colleagues Ralphe Horne, John Fien, Beau Beza and Anitra Nelson edited a fascinating book on ‘sustainability citizenship’ to which I was priviledged to contribute a chapter together with...
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Online Masters Course on Education in the context of Sustainable Development...
New Course: Education for sustainable development – an introduction There is only one Earth. With global challenges such as climate change, mass extinction of species, rising inequity and a growing...
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(Re-)designing higher education curricula in times of systemic dysfunction: a...
A new paper coming out of the EnRRich network LivingKnowledge & EnRRich seems ti get a lot of attention considering the number of paper downloads within the first 10 days the paper has appeared...
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“Today we’re going to study the food pyramid for healthy living!” the High School Social Science teacher Mark told his class. Mark was excited about launching a healthy food project that would enable...
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Learning-based transformations towards sustainability: a relational approach...
Recently a new paper I co-authored with lead author Daniele Tubino Souza and second co-author Pedro Jacobi appeared in Environmental Education Research – see:...
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