Sustainability in Higher Education – Moving from Understanding to Action: Breaking Barriers for Transformation presentation for UNICA.

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Sustainability in Higher Education – Moving from Understanding to Action: Breaking Barriers for Transformation presentation for UNICA Academic Footprint Workshop, Oslo May 3 rd, 2011 Arjen E.J. Wals

“The conventional wisdom holds that all education is good, and the more of it one has, the better.… The truth is that without significant precautions, [it] can equip people merely to be more effective vandals of the Earth” (D. Orr).

Higher Education’s Response (Wals & Blewitt, 2010) Creating environmental engineering/studies programmes (70-ties onwards) Greening of campuses (90-ties onwards) Whole institution approaches Sterling: denial, bolt-on, built in, whole system re- design

Three binaries in Higher Education: where to go?  Science for impact factors – science for society  Increasing efficiency– promoting authentic learning  Science as ‘commodity’ – science as ‘community’ barrierway out

Science for impact factors – barrier? T Time to read/review n-publications n-scientists

Science for society – way out?

Science for society – way out ?

Science as community – way out?

Accelerating connectivism

Source: George Siemens, 2008

Sustainability Competence (1) Understanding sustainable development Systems thinking Adopting an integral view Personal leadership and entrepreneurship Unlocking creativity, utilizing diversity Appreciating chaos & complexity Fostering collective change Dynamics of SD Change & Innovation

Sustainability Competence (2) – (Wals,2010) Transformative learning Trans-spatial Gestalt Trans-cultural Gestalt Trans-temporal Gestalt Trans-disciplinary Gestalt

Walking the talk Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™)

Third generation university – science 2.0

A Framework for Facilitating Sustainability University as an institution Community linkages Pedagogy, learning and instruction Contents, Curriculum Research Facilitating Sustainability

Key questions for today’s universities Normatively – to what end? Epistemologically – what kind of knowledge? what counts as knowledge? Relationally – what kind of interface with the community/society is needed to remain relevant? Methodologically – what kind of research methodologies are congruent with this changing role/position? Pedagogically – what are appropriate learning processes and learning outcomes?

Thank you!