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10.1177/097340820700100217
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2007-09
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A. Wals
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Arjen E.J. Wals在这本优秀的书的致谢部分提出了两个相关的观点，这对接下来的27章的选择、结构和质量有重要的影响。首先，他对他的学术界朋友愿意花时间为一本编辑过的书写一章而不是为一本评审期刊保留写作时间表示惊讶。如此多的作者心甘情愿地撰写章节，这一事实说明了社会学习概念在可持续性思维中的重要性日益增强。事实上，这本书是近年来出版的第三本关于这个主题的书。其他的是leeulewis和Pyburn的《满是青蛙的手推车：农村资源管理中的社会学习》（2002）和Keen， Brown和Dyball的《环境管理中的社会学习：走向可持续的未来》（2005）。虽然这些书和这本书之间有一些小的重叠，但沃尔斯的书是唯一一本对这个主题采取明确教育方法的书。另外两个则是从自然资源管理或可持续发展的角度出发。《走向可持续世界的社会学习》一书的前言和后记分别由环境哲学家出身的生态文化教育家弗里乔夫·卡普拉和激进教育家迈克尔·阿普尔两位著名人士撰写，这证明了这一领域的进化和成熟。致谢的第二个要点是，社会学习是一个“模糊的领域”，尽管它越来越重要，而且目前所有关于它的研究和写作都在增加。《满是青蛙的手推车》和《环境管理中的社会学习》接受了这种模糊性，尽管后者的编辑确定了社会学习过程中的五条编织链（见《迈向可持续世界的社会学习》第8章），作为提取该领域基线概念化的一种方式。评审和资源评审
Arjen E.J. Wals makes two pertinent points in the acknowledgements section of this excellent book that have significant bearing on the selection, structure and quality of the 27 chapters that follow. First, he expresses surprise that his academic friends would take time to write a chapter for an edited book—rather than reserve their writing time for a refereed journal. The fact that so many authors so willingly wrote chapters speaks to the growing importance of the concept of social learning in sustainability thinking. Indeed, this book is the third to be published in recent years on this topic. The others are Leeuwis and Pyburn’s Wheelbarrows Full of Frogs: Social Learning in Rural Resource Management (2002) and Keen, Brown and Dyball’s Social Learning in Environmental Management: Towards a Sustainable Future (2005). While there is some small overlap between these books and this one, Wals’ book is the only one to take an explicitly educational approach to the theme. The other two come at it from natural resources management or sustainability angles. Social Learning towards a Sustainable World represents an evolution and maturing of the field as evidenced by the choice of notables to write the Foreword and Afterword, the environmental philosopher-turned-ecoliteracy educator, Fritjof Capra, and the radical educator Michael Apple, respectively. The second significant point in the acknowledgements is that social learning is a ‘fuzzy field’ despite its growing importance and all the current research and writing about it. Wheelbarrows Full of Frogs and Social Learning in Environmental Management accepted this fuzziness although the editors of the latter identified five braided strands in social learning processes (reviewed in Chapter 8 of Social Learning towards a Sustainable World) as a way of distilling a baseline conceptualisation of the field. REVIEWS AND RESOURCES Reviews