Educating Students in Real-world Sustainability Research: Vision and Implementation

被引：100

作者：

Brundiers K. ^{[2
]}

Wiek A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5502, PO Box 875502

[2] Decision Center for a Desert City, Tempe, AZ 85287-8209, PO Box 878209, 21 East 6th Street

来源：

Innovative Higher Education | 2011年 / 36卷 / 2期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Evaluation; Interface management; Participatory research; Sustainability research education; Transformative learning;

D O I：

10.1007/s10755-010-9161-9

中图分类号：

学科分类号：

摘要：

Readers are invited to imagine students helping to solve real-world sustainability problems brought to them by societal stakeholders and simultaneously learning about and contributing to sustainable changes in society. Effective sustainability research education engages students in just that. Higher education institutions are implementing this vision of education in entire curricula, individual courses, and extracurricular research activities. In this article, we build on the literature to describe a vision of sustainability research education and present an evaluative scheme for measuring its effectiveness. We apply the scheme to two sustainability research-education projects in Switzerland to test its applicability and to identify achievements of the projects and the areas where improvement is needed. Areas for improvement include collaboration between academics and practitioners, joint problem definition, and the guidance of students to participate successfully in collaborative, real-world projects. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

引用

页码：107 / 124

页数：17

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