Clik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transitioning towards a better world: fostering organizational sustainability...
The journal ‘The Learning Organization’ has just published a special issue on “The importance of educational learning for organizational sustainability” edited by Peter Smith. The special issue has a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Learning in a Changing World and Changing in a Learning World: Reflexively...
Some people have asked me for a copy of a ‘think piece’ I wrote a few years ago as input for a World Congress on Environmental Education held in South Africa a few years ago. The paper – Learning in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just out: (Re)views of Social Learning Literature – A Monograph for Social...
Recently a monograph containing (Re)views of Social Learning Literature in the context of Natural Resource Management & Environmental Education was published by the Southern African Development...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Greening in the Red Zone… Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening – now...
Cover Greening the Red Zone Ok – it has taken some time to appear but finally this much anticipated volume is available. My former colleague Marlon van der Waal and I have a chapter in it titled:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NJAS Special Issue: Social learning towards sustainability: problematic,...
‘Social learning towards sustainability: problematic, perspectives and promise’ is the title of a special issue of NJAS which I co-edited with my (former) colleagues Romina Rodela and PJ Beers. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The relevance of Jane Jacobs and Elinor Ostrom to urban socio-ecology
Jane Jacobs and Elinor Ostrom were both giants in their impact on how we think about communities, cities, and common resources such as space and nature. But we don’t often put them together to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time for ‘T-learning’ – transformative, transgressive learning in times of...
Still feeling very privileged and a bit lucky to be part of a very rich consortium of partners from 4 different continents – as one of 3 selected proposal out of more than 500 (!) original expressions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New: The interplay between social learning and adaptive capacity in climate...
Pics source: www.knowledgebank.irri.org One of my PhD students, Le Thi Hong Phuong from Vietnam, just had her review article (with me and Robbert Biesbroek of Wageningen UR as humble co-authors)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reflection methods: tools to make learning more meaningful – new open access...
This guide for trainers, educators and facilitators, compiled/written by Femke Gordijn, Natalia Eernstman, Jan Helder, Herman Brouwer and published by Wageningen UR’s Centre for Development Innovation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grassroots to Global Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology
Together with my former PhD-student, friend and colleague in the T-Learning project (www.transgressivelearning.org) Martha Chaves I co-authored a chapter on the Nature of Transformative Learning for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Overcoming socio-ecological vulnerability through community-based social...
A new paper was published in the journal Local Environment this month led by one of my recently graduated PhD-students, Daniele Souza. The paper investigates community-based initiatives and collective...
View Article
