The social lab classroom: wrestling with—and learning from— sustainability challenges
The social lab classroom: wrestling with—and learning from— sustainability challenges
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社会实验室课堂：应对可持续发展挑战并从中学习
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10.1080/15487733.2016.11908155
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2016
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D. Eardley
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Danielle L Lake;Hannah Fernando;D. Eardley
与传统的学科研究和解决问题的方法不同，在高等教育中仍然很常见，本文阐述并推荐了一种跨学科的整体教学方法，该方法认真对待我们邪恶的社会可持续性挑战的相互联系（例如，贫困，全球气候变化，食物获取等）。我们认为，教育工作者可以通过要求学生参与与大规模系统性挑战相关的本地问题，来更好地为学生解决此类棘手问题做好准备。通过从学生和教师的角度讨论“可持续发展的邪恶问题”课程的设计和结果，我们寻求扩展和加强有效的教学策略。作为可持续发展教育和创新的实验室，我们开发了一个跨学科的、社区参与的高年级本科课程，让学生参与社会可持续发展不可分割的维度的参与性研究。与社区伙伴合作，跨越网络、学科和机构，学生有机会改善当地社区的实际问题。在此过程中，课程向学生和教师提出了一系列强有力的挑战，从密集的合作，到后勤和时间管理困境，再到现实世界的执行问题。本文详细介绍了与混乱调查、参与性研究和社区参与相关的障碍，并提供了克服这些障碍的建议。
Abstract Unlike the traditional disciplinary approach to research and problem-solving still common in higher education, this article explicates and recommends an interdisciplinary, holistic pedagogical approach that takes seriously the interconnectedness of our wicked social sustainability challenges (e.g., poverty, global climate change, food access, among others). We argue that educators can better prepare students to tackle such wicked problems by requiring they engage with locally based problems connected to large-scale systemic challenges. By discussing the design and outcomes of the course “Wicked Problems of Sustainability” from both the students’ and instructor’s perspectives, we seek to extend and enhance effective pedagogical strategies. As a laboratory for sustainability education and innovation we have developed a transdisciplinary, community-engaged, upper-division undergraduate course that engages students in participatory research on the inextricably linked dimensions of social sustainability. Collaborating with community partners to work across networks, disciplines, and institutions, students have the opportunity to ameliorate real problems in the local community. In doing so, the course confronts students and the instructor with a series of robust challenges from intensive collaborations, to logistical and time-management dilemmas, to real-world execution issues. This article details the obstacles associated with messy inquiry, participatory research, and community engagement and provides recommendations for overcoming them.
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2011
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Fitzpatrick, Tony
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Fitzpatrick, Tony